Professional Domesticity in the Victorian Novel: Women, Work and Home - Monica Feinberg Cohen

Questioning the stereotypes associated with Victorian domesticity, Monica F. Cohen offers new readings of narratives by Austen, Charlotte Brontë, Dickens, Eliot, Eden, Gaskell, Oliphant and Reade. Cohen traces ways in which domestic work, often perceived as the most feminine of all activities, gained social credibility through being described in the vocabulary of nineteenth-century professionalism. She shows how women sought identity and privilege within Victorian culture, and revises our understanding of nineteenth-century domestic ideology.

data wydania

październik 2005 (data przybliżona)

ISBN

9780521021180

liczba stron

232

słowa kluczowe

wiktorianizm; Anglia; kultura; XIX w; kobiety

język

angielski