Valerie Sanders

The Tragi-Comedy of Victorian Fatherhood

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Produktbeschreibung

A new study of Victorian middle-class fatherhood using the private diaries and letters of influential public men.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. April 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 538g
• ISBN-13: 9780521884785
• ISBN-10: 0521884780
• Artikelnr.: 26056937

Autorenporträt

Valerie Sanders is Professor of English at the University of Hull. Her interest in Margaret Oliphant began with Eve's Renegades: Victorian Anti-Feminist Women Novelists (Macmillan,1996), and she has since contributed four edited volumes to the Pickering and Chatto Masters project, Selected Works of Margaret Oliphant, including a scholarly edition of Hester (1883). Other edited work includes two volumes of Records of Girlhood (Ashgate, 2000 and 2012), anthologies of nineteenth-century women's childhoods, and she has also published widely on Harriet Martineau, most recently a co-edited essay collection, with Gaby Weiner, Harriet Martineau and the Birth of Disciplines (Routledge, 2016). Her monographs include The Brother-Sister Culture in Nineteenth-Century Literature: From Austen to Woolf (Palgrave Macmillan, 2002), and The Tragi-Comedy of Victorian Fatherhood (CUP, 2009).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: looking for the Victorian father
1. The failure of fatherhood at mid-century: four case histories
2. Theatrical fatherhood: Dickens and Macready
3. 'How?' and 'Why?': Kingsley as educating father
4. Matthew and Son (and Father): the Arnolds
5. 'A fine degree of paternal fervour': scientifc fathering
6. Death comes for the Archbishop (and Prime Minister)
Conclusion.