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The Spectacle of Intimacy. A Public Life for the Victorian Family.
Karen Chase
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Description for The Spectacle of Intimacy. A Public Life for the Victorian Family.
Hardcover. Love of home life, the intimate moments a family peacefully enjoyed in seclusion, had long been considered a hallmark of English character even before the Victorian era. This book explores how intimacy became a spectacle and how this paradox energized Victorian culture between 1835 and 1865. Series: Literature in History. Num Pages: 264 pages, 9 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; DSBF; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTB; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 514.
Love of home life, the intimate moments a family peacefully enjoyed in seclusion, had long been considered a hallmark of English character even before the Victorian era. But the Victorians attached unprecedented importance to domesticity, romanticizing the family in every medium from novels to government reports, to the point where actual families felt anxious and the public developed a fierce appetite for scandal. Here Karen Chase and Michael Levenson explore how intimacy became a spectacle and how this paradox energized Victorian culture between 1835 and 1865. They tell a story of a society continually perfecting the forms of private pleasure ... Read more
Love of home life, the intimate moments a family peacefully enjoyed in seclusion, had long been considered a hallmark of English character even before the Victorian era. But the Victorians attached unprecedented importance to domesticity, romanticizing the family in every medium from novels to government reports, to the point where actual families felt anxious and the public developed a fierce appetite for scandal. Here Karen Chase and Michael Levenson explore how intimacy became a spectacle and how this paradox energized Victorian culture between 1835 and 1865. They tell a story of a society continually perfecting the forms of private pleasure ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Series
Literature in History
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691006680
SKU
V9780691006680
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About Karen Chase
Karen Chase, Professor of English at the University of Virginia, is the author of Eros and Psyche: The Representation of Personality in Charlotte Brontë, Charles Dickens, and George Eliot. She has also written a book-length critical study of Middlemarch. Michael Levenson is also Professor of English at the University of ... Read more
Reviews for The Spectacle of Intimacy. A Public Life for the Victorian Family.
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2000 "In readings that diplomatically maintain alliances among literature, politics, the law and social history, Chase and Levenson disclose a complex economy of public and private that transversed Victorian life. No separate spheres here; this is first-rate interdisciplinary scholarship."
Sarah Churchwell, Times Literary Supplement
Sarah Churchwell, Times Literary Supplement