The End of Domesticity. Alienation from the Family in Dickens, Eliot, and James.
Charles Hatten
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Hardback. Num Pages: 316 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 168 x 22. Weight in Grams: 590.
Few changes in literary history are as dramatic as the replacement of the sentimental image of the home in Victorian fiction by the emphasis in modernist fiction on dysfunctional families and domestic alienation. In The End of Domesticity Charles Hatten offers a provocative theory for this seminal shift that even now shapes literary depictions of the family. Discussing works by Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and Henry James, Hatten shows how these major writers anticipate modernist preoccupations with domestic alienation while responding to their own historical context of changes in, and controversies about, gender roles and the family. Most originally, Hatten ... Read more
Few changes in literary history are as dramatic as the replacement of the sentimental image of the home in Victorian fiction by the emphasis in modernist fiction on dysfunctional families and domestic alienation. In The End of Domesticity Charles Hatten offers a provocative theory for this seminal shift that even now shapes literary depictions of the family. Discussing works by Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and Henry James, Hatten shows how these major writers anticipate modernist preoccupations with domestic alienation while responding to their own historical context of changes in, and controversies about, gender roles and the family. Most originally, Hatten ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Delaware Press United States
Number of pages
316
Condition
New
Number of Pages
316
Place of Publication
Delaware, United States
ISBN
9781611491319
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V9781611491319
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About Charles Hatten
Charles Hatten is associate professor of English at Bellarmine University.
Reviews for The End of Domesticity. Alienation from the Family in Dickens, Eliot, and James.
What is most important about Hatten's and Hager's studies is that they offer new ways of thinking about marital and familial failure in domestic fiction.
Victorian Studies
Victorian Studies