Nobody's Angels: Middle-Class Women and Domestic Ideology in Victorian Culture (Reading Women Writing)
"Langland's account is deeply provocative, and it is elaborated with great intellectual integrity. . . . Her readings are astute, and her dexterity at balancing strong claims about gender and class against her theoretical fidelity to the demands of writing a discontinuous, non-traditional account of cultural politics is impressive and instructive. Nobody's Angels is, without doubt, essential reading for students of nineteenth-century culture, and it will significantly alter the ways we reconcile the ideologies of public and private spheres."—John Kucich,Novel: A Forum on Fiction(Spring 1996)