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Autore |
Wallace Anne D. |
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Titolo |
Sisters and the English household : domesticity and women's autonomy in nineteenth-century English literature / / Anne D. Wallace [[electronic resource]] |
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London : , : Anthem Press, 2018 |
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ISBN |
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1-78308-847-8 |
1-78308-846-X |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (x, 203 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Collana |
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Anthem nineteenth-century series |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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English literature - 19th century - History and criticism |
Single women in literature |
Women and literature - England - History - 19th century |
Sisters in literature |
Sex role in literature |
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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 30 May 2019). |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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"Alternative domesticities: re-valuing the sibling in the house" -- "'Out into the orchard': the departure of the sibling in the house" -- "The problem of the sister in the house" -- "George Eliot's natural history of the English family'". |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Sisters and the English Household revalues unmarried adult sisters in nineteenth-century English literature as positive figures of legal and economic autonomy representing productive labor in the domestic space. As a crucial site of contested values, the adult unmarried sister carries the discursive weight of sustained public debates about ideals of domesticity in nineteenth-century England. Engaging scholarly histories of the family, and providing a detailed account of the 70-year Marriage with a Deceased Wife's Sister controversy, Anne Wallace traces an alternative domesticity anchored by adult sibling relations through Dorothy Wordsworth's journals; William Wordsworth's poetry; Mary Lamb's essay "On Needle-Work"; and novels by Jane Austen, Elizabeth Gaskell, Charles Dickens, Dinah Mulock Craik and George Eliot. Recognizing adult sibling relationships, and the figure of the adult |
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