Anne D. Wallace

Sisters and the English Household

Domesticity and Women's Autonomy in Nineteenth-Century English Literature

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Produktbeschreibung

'Sisters and the English Household' revalues unmarried adult sisters in nineteenth-century English literature as positive figures of legal and economic autonomy representing productive labour in the domestic space. As a crucial site of contested values, the adult unmarried sister carries the discursive weight of sustained public debates about ideals of domesticity in nineteenth-century England.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Seitenzahl: 214
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. September 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 507g
• ISBN-13: 9781783088454
• ISBN-10: 1783088451
• Artikelnr.: 53538503

Autorenporträt

Anne D. Wallace is professor of English at the University of North Carolina Greensboro, USA. The author of Walking, Literature, and English Culture (1993), Wallace has also published articles on John Clare, Charlotte Smith, Dorothy and William Wordsworth, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Alternative Domesticities: Revaluing the Sibling in the House
2. "Out into the Orchard": The Departure of the Sibling in the House
3. The Problem of the Sister in the House
4. George Eliot's Natural History of the English Family
Notes
Works Cited
Index.