Dickens and the Politics of the Family (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521573559)

The fictional representation of the family has long been regarded as a Dickensian speciality; yet any close examination of his novels reveals a remarkable disjunction between his image as the quintessential celebrant of the hearth, and his interest in fractured families. Drawing on feminist and new historicist methodologies, Catherine Waters argues that Dickens' novels record a shift in notions of the family away from stress on the importance of lineage and blood toward a new ideal of domesticity assumed to be the natural form of the family.

Author: Catherine Waters,Waters Catherine
ISBN-10: 0521573556
ISBN-13: 9780521573559
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 08/13/1997
Pages: 248
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.03lbs
Size: 9.28h x 6.24w x 0.73d