The end of domesticity : alienation from the family in Dickens, Eliot, and James /
Hatten, Charles,1957-
Newark, Del. : University of Delaware Press,
c2010.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: the end of domesticity -- Disciplining the family in Barnaby Rudge and Dombey and son : Dickens's professionalization of fiction -- David Copperfield and after : Dickens and the impasse of domesticity -- The crisis of community and the historicization of the feminine in The mill on the floss -- Marital alienation, national destiny, and the novel of spiritual malaise in Daniel Deronda -- The smashed window : Henry James, the fin de siècle, and the prostitution of love and art  in The wings of the dove -- Afterword : modernism and the alienation of the domestic.
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
Eliot, George, 1819-1880
James, Henry, 1843-1916
Domestic fiction, English
English fiction
Literature and society
Domestic fiction, American
American fiction
Literature and society
Dysfunctional families in literature.
Home in literature.
Families in literature.
Sex role in literature.