LEADER 03343nam 22005412 450 001 9910545197903321 005 20190611094412.0 010 $a1-78308-847-8 010 $a1-78308-846-X 035 $a(CKB)4100000006671318 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5515388 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9781783088461 035 $a(ScCtBLL)62041a72-2740-4802-873c-7563ce0a26ad 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000006671318 100 $a20190509d2018|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aSisters and the English household $edomesticity and women's autonomy in nineteenth-century English literature /$fAnne D. Wallace$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aLondon :$cAnthem Press$d2018. 215 $a1 online resource (x, 203 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 225 1 $aAnthem nineteenth-century series 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 30 May 2019). 311 $a1-78308-845-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $a"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'". 330 $aSisters and the English Household revalues unmarried adult sisters in nineteenth-century English literature as positive figures of legal and economic autonomy representing productive labor in the domestic space. As a crucial site of contested values, the adult unmarried sister carries the discursive weight of sustained public debates about ideals of domesticity in nineteenth-century England. Engaging scholarly histories of the family, and providing a detailed account of the 70-year Marriage with a Deceased Wife's Sister controversy, Anne Wallace traces an alternative domesticity anchored by adult sibling relations through Dorothy Wordsworth's journals; William Wordsworth's poetry; Mary Lamb's essay "On Needle-Work"; and novels by Jane Austen, Elizabeth Gaskell, Charles Dickens, Dinah Mulock Craik and George Eliot. Recognizing adult sibling relationships, and the figure of the adult unmarried sibling in the household, as primary and generative rather than contingent and dependent, and recognizing material economy and law as fundamental sources of sibling identity, Sisters and the English Household resets the conditions for literary critical discussions of sibling relations in nineteenth-century England. 410 0$aAnthem nineteenth-century series. 606 $aEnglish literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aSingle women in literature 606 $aWomen and literature$zEngland$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aSisters in literature 606 $aSex role in literature 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aSingle women in literature. 615 0$aWomen and literature$xHistory 615 0$aSisters in literature. 615 0$aSex role in literature. 676 $a820.9/352209034 700 $aWallace$b Anne D.$0552713 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910545197903321 996 $aSisters and the English household$92784647 997 $aUNINA