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Professional Domesticity in the Victorian Novel: Women, Work and Home

Professional Domesticity in the Victorian Novel: Women, Work and Home

Cohen, Monica F.
Beer, Gillian
Monica Feinberg, Cohen

Hardcover

Series: Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Cultu, Book 14

Literary CriticismGeneral Gender Studies

ISBN10: 0521591414
ISBN13: 9780521591416
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Feb 5 1998
Pages: 232
Weight: 1.13
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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.

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