Keeping the Victorian House (eBook, ePUB)

A Collection of Essays
Redaktion: Dickerson, Vanessa D.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

First published in 1995. The essays in this edition determine how writers, especially novelists, both male and female, used housekeeping to construct, reconstruct, represent, and inscribe the female self and condition. This title will be of interest to students of history and literature.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 402
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317244769
• Artikelnr.: 45435149

Autorenporträt

Vanessa D. Dickerson

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements; Introduction: Housekeeping and Housekept Angels Vanessa
D. Dickerson; Part One: In My Father's House; or, In Search of a Home of
Her Own; 1. Housekeeping and Hegemony in Dickens's 'Bleak House' Martin A.
Danahay 2. Stitching Repentance, Sewing Rebellion: Seamstresses and Fallen
Women in Elizabeth Gaskell's Fiction Deborah Denenholz Morse 3. God's
House, Women's Place Laura Fasick 4. Women Artists at Home Julia M. Gergits
5. Female Acquisition in 'The Spoils of Poynton' Sandra Kumamoto Stanley
6. Playing House: Frances Hodgson Burnett's Victorian Fairy Tale Eileen
Connell; Part Two: A Woman's Work Is Never Done: Women's Work and Domestic
Space; 7. The Chatelaine: Women of the Victorian Landed Classes and the
Country House Jessica Gerard 8. Decorating Domestic Space: Middle-Class
Women and Victorian Interiors Thad Logan 9. "Ladies-Loaf Givers": Food,
Women, and Society in the Novels of Charlotte Brontë and George Eliot
Francis L. Fennell, Monica A. Fennell 10. Housework, Mill Work, Women's
Work: The Functions of Cloth in Charlotte Brontë's 'Shirley' Maura Ives
11. Loss of the Domestic Idyll: Slop Workers in Victorian Fiction Lynn M.
Alexander 12. Domestic Ironies: Housekeeping as Mankeeping in Conrad's 'The
Secret Agent' Brian W. Shaffer; Select Bibliography; Contributors; Index