Disorderly sisters
Subtitle: sibling relations and sororal resistance in nineteenth-century British literature
By: Leila Silvana May.
Publisher: Bucknell University Press; Associated University Presses
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Lewisburg [Pa.]; London; Cranbury, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
Subjects: English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Sisters in literature; Domestic fiction, English -- History and criticism; Brothers and sisters in literature
Description: "This book explores one of the central concerns of nineteenth-century fiction - the family - examines the literary and historical dimensions of the period's particular obsession with siblings.

Historians and literary critics have long understood the crucial significance of the family to the nineteenth-century middle-class sensibility, but almost all critical analyses to date have concentrated on the "vertical" pole of the familial axis - the parent-child relationship - and very little on the "horizontal" pole - the sibling bond. This book looks beyond these analyses to show that at the core of nineteenth-century domestic ideology is the figure of the sister."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-266) and index.