Valerie Sanders

Broschiertes Buch

The Tragi-Comedy of Victorian Fatherhood

Beschreibung

Examining Victorian middle-class fatherhood from the fathers' own perspective, Valerie Sanders dismantles the persistent stereotype of the nineteenth-century paterfamilias by focusing on the intimate family lives of influential public men. Beginning with Prince Albert as a high-profile patriarchal role-model, and comparing the parallel case histories of prominent Victorians such as Dickens, Darwin, Huxley and Gladstone, the book explores the strains on men in public life as they managed their private relationship with their children and found a language for the expression of their pleasure, grief and anxiety as fathers. In a context of cultural uncertainty about the legal rights and moral responsibilities of fatherhood, the study draws on a wealth of unpublished journals and letters to show how conscientious Victorian fathers in effect invented a meaningful domestic role for themselves which has been little understood.

Autor

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).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Oktober 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 388g
• ISBN-13: 9781107412651
• ISBN-10: 110741265X
• Artikelnr.: 37465151