Screen LibrarySisters and the English household : domesticity and women's autonomy in nineteenth-century English literature /
"This study revalues unmarried adult sisters in English 19th-century literature as positive figures of legal and economic autonomy representing productive labor in the domestic space. As a crucial site of contested values, this sister carries the discursive weight of sustained public debates ab...
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Anthem Press,
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| Publisher Address: | London : |
| Publication Dates: | 2018. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
Anthem nineteenth-century series
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| Summary: |
"This study revalues unmarried adult sisters in English 19th-century literature as positive figures of legal and economic autonomy representing productive labor in the domestic space. As a crucial site of contested values, this sister carries the discursive weight of sustained public debates about ideals of domesticity in 19th-century England"-- |
| Carrier Form: | x, 203 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781783088454 (hardback) : 1783088451 (hardback) |
| Index Number: | PR468 |
| CLC: | I561.064 |
| Call Number: | I561.064/W187 |
| Contents: | "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'" |