The end of domesticity
Subtitle: alienation from the family in Dickens, Eliot, and James
By: Charles Hatten.
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Newark
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780874130751
Subjects: Dickens, Charles, -- 1812-1870 -- Criticism and interpretation; Eliot, George, -- 1819-1880 -- Criticism and interpretation; James, Henry, -- 1843-1916 -- Criticism and interpretation; Domestic fiction, English -- History and criticism; English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century; Domestic fiction, American -- History and criticism; American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Problem families in literature; Home in literature; Family in literature; Sex role in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the end of domesticity; title: Disciplining the family in Barnaby Rudge and Dombey and son : Dickens's professionalization of fiction; title: David Copperfield and after : Dickens and the impasse of domesticity; title: The crisis of community and the historicization of the feminine in The mill on the floss; title: Marital alienation, national destiny, and the novel of spiritual malaise in Daniel Deronda; title: The smashed window : Henry James, the fin de siècle, and the prostitution of love and art; title: In the wings of the dove; title: Afterword : modernism and the alienation of the domestic.