| Professional Domesticity in the Victorian Novel: Women, Work and Home Contributor(s): Cohen, Monica F. (Author), Monica Feinberg, Cohen (Author), Beer, Gillian (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0521591414 ISBN-13: 9780521591416 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $140.60 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: February 1998 Annotation: Questioning the stereotypes associated with Victorian domesticity, Monica F. Cohen offers new readings of narratives by Austen, Charlotte Bronte, 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Social Science | Gender Studies |
| Dewey: 823.809 |
| LCCN: 97011305 |
| Series: Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature & Culture |
| Physical Information: 0.69" H x 6" W x 9" (1.13 lbs) 232 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Questioning the stereotypes associated with Victorian domesticity, Monica F. Cohen offers new readings of narratives by Austen, Charlotte Bront , 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. |