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Dickens and the Daughter of the House

Dickens and the Daughter of the House

Schor, Hilary M.

Hardcover

Series: Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Cultu, Book 25

Literary CriticismGeneral Gender Studies

ISBN10: 0521440769
ISBN13: 9780521440769
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Jan 27 2000
Pages: 248
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.71 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.28
Language: English
The daughter in Dickens' fiction is considered in this study not as an emblem of tranquil domesticity and the hearth-fire, but as a bearer of cultural values--and as a potentially disruptive force. As the good daughters in his novels (Little Nell, Agnes Wickfield, Esther Summerson, Amy Dorrit) must leave the father's house and enter the wider world, so they transform and rewrite the stories they are empowered to tell. The daughter's secret inheritance, her portion, is to give Dickens a way of reading and writing his own culture differently.

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