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The Brother-Sister Culture in Nineteenth-Century Literature: From Austen to Woolf
Valerie Sanders
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Hardcover. This text argues that brother sister relationships, idealized by the Romantics, intensified in 19th-century English domestic culture, and is a neglected key to understanding Victorian gender relations. The final chapter shows how the brother sister bond was changed by the the First World War. Num Pages: 233 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 479.
This book argues that brother-sister relationships, idealized by the Romantics, intensified in nineteenth-century English domestic culture, and is a neglected key to understanding Victorian gender relations. Attracted by the apparent purity of the sibling bond, novelists and poets also acknowledged its innate ambivalence and instability, through conflicting patterns of sublimated devotion, revenge fantasy, and corrosive obsession. The final chapter shows how the brother-sister bond was permanently changed by the experience of the First World War.
This book argues that brother-sister relationships, idealized by the Romantics, intensified in nineteenth-century English domestic culture, and is a neglected key to understanding Victorian gender relations. Attracted by the apparent purity of the sibling bond, novelists and poets also acknowledged its innate ambivalence and instability, through conflicting patterns of sublimated devotion, revenge fantasy, and corrosive obsession. The final chapter shows how the brother-sister bond was permanently changed by the experience of the First World War.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Number of Pages
223
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780333749302
SKU
V9780333749302
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About Valerie Sanders
VALERIE SANDERS is Professor of English Literature at the University of Hull. Previous publications include Reason Over Passion: Harriet Martineau and the Victorian Novel, The Private Lives of Victorian Women: Autobiography in 19th Century England and Eve's Renegades: Victorian Anti-Feminist Women Novelists. She has also edited Harriet Martineau: Selected Letters and Records of Girlhood: Nineteenth-Century Women's Childhoods.
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