Questioning the father
Subtitle: from Darwin to Zola, Ibsen, Strindberg, and Hardy
By: Ross Shideler.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Stanford, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 226
Subjects: Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882 -- Influence; Zola, Emile, 1840-1902 -- Characters -- Fathers; Ibsen, Henrik, 1828-1906 -- Characters -- Fathers; Strindberg, August, 1849-1912 -- Characters -- Fathers; Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928 -- Characters -- Fathers; Fathers and sons in literature; Literature, Modern -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Literature, Modern -- Male authors -- History and criticism; Patriarchy in literature; Authority in literature; Men in literature
Description: "This book analyzes dramatic and narrative representations of crises in the nineteenth-century patriarchal family and the gradual rise of the independent or New Woman in works by Zola, Ibsen, Strindberg, and Hardy."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-213) and index.