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The Brother-Sister Culture in Nineteenth-Century Literature: From Austen to Woolf

The Brother-Sister Culture in Nineteenth-Century Literature: From Austen to Woolf

Sanders, V.

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Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0333749308
ISBN13: 9780333749302
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Dec 17 2001
Pages: 223
Weight: 1.04
Height: 0.78 Width: 5.66 Depth: 8.84
Language: English
This book argues that brother-sister relationships, idealized by the Romantics, intensified in nineteenth-century English domestic culture, and is a neglected key to understanding Victorian gender relations. Attracted by the apparent purity of the sibling bond, novelists and poets also acknowledged its innate ambivalence and instability, through conflicting patterns of sublimated devotion, revenge fantasy, and corrosive obsession. The final chapter shows how the brother-sister bond was permanently changed by the experience of the First World War.

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