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UNINA9910456193403321 |
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Autore |
Schor Hilary Margo |
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Titolo |
Dickens and the daughter of the house / / Hilary M. Schor [[electronic resource]] |
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Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 1999 |
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1-107-11192-7 |
0-521-04263-1 |
0-511-31034-X |
0-511-48491-7 |
0-511-05265-0 |
1-280-15176-5 |
0-511-11606-3 |
0-511-15081-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xii, 232 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Collana |
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Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; ; 25 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Women and literature - England - History - 19th century |
Domestic fiction, English - History and criticism |
Fathers and daughters in literature |
Daughters in literature |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 208-229) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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The uncanny daughter: Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby, and the progress of Little Nell -- Dombey and son: the daughter's nothing -- Hard times and A tale of two cities: the social inheritance of adultery -- Bleak House and the dead mother's property -- Amy Dorrit's prison notebooks -- In the shadow of Satis House: the woman's story in Great expectations -- Our mutual friend and the daughter's book of the dead. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Feminist criticism has not been kind to Charles Dickens. The characters George Orwell referred to as 'legless angels' - Little Nell, Agnes Wickfield, Esther Summerson and others - have been conjured as evidence of Dickens' inability to create 'real' women. Critics wishing to rescue him have turned to the dark, angry women - Nancy, Lady |
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