Dickens and the Daughter of the House (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521440769)

The daughter in Dickens' fiction is considered in this study not as an emblem of tranquil domesticity and the hearth-fire, but as a bearer of cultural values--and as a potentially disruptive force. As the good daughters in his novels (Little Nell, Agnes Wickfield, Esther Summerson, Amy Dorrit) must leave the father's house and enter the wider world, so they transform and rewrite the stories they are empowered to tell. The daughter's secret inheritance, her "portion," is to give Dickens a way of reading and writing his own culture differently.

Author: Hilary M. Schor
ISBN-10: 0521440769
ISBN-13: 9780521440769
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 01/27/2000
Pages: 248
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 9.28h x 6.30w x 0.71d