Professional Domesticity in the Victorian Novel: Women, Work and Home (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521021180)

Questioning the stereotypes associated with Victorian domesticity, Monica F. Cohen offers new readings of narratives by Austen, Charlotte Bront , Dickens, Eliot, Eden, Gaskell, Oliphant and Reade. Cohen traces ways in which domestic work, often perceived as the most feminine of all activities, gained social credibility through being described in the vocabulary of nineteenth-century professionalism. She shows how women sought identity and privilege within Victorian culture, and revises our understanding of nineteenth-century domestic ideology.

Author: Monica Feinberg Cohen
ISBN-10: 0521021189
ISBN-13: 9780521021180
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 10/13/2005
Pages: 232
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.76lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.53d