Sisters 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'" |