The brother-sister culture in nineteenth-century literature
Subtitle: from Austen to Woolf
By: Valerie Sanders.
Publisher: Palgrave
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
Subjects: English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.; Brothers and sisters in literature.; English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.; Domestic fiction, English -- History and criticism.; Brothers and sisters -- Great Britain -- History.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-217) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Introduction; title: 1 The Brother and Sister Culture; title: 2 Brother-Sister Collaborative Relationships; title: Romantic partnerships: the Lambs; title: and the Wordsworths; title: Victorian partnerships: the Brontes; title: and the Rossettis; title: The Sitwell phenomenon; title: 3 'One of the Highest Forms of Friendship':; title: Brother-Sister relationships in women's; title: autobiography; title: Margaret Oliphant and Elizabeth Sewell; title: Harriet and James Martineau; title: Conclusion; title: 4 The Brother as Lover; title: Jane Austen and Mary Shelley; title: The Bronte novels; title: Family sagas of the 1860s; title: Dickens and George Eliot; title: Conclusion; title: 5 The Family Revenge Novel; title: Early nineteenth-century Gothic representations; title: Dickens and L. P. Hartley: sisters in wheelchairs; title: Bertha Rochester: the mad sister in the attic; title: Bad Brothers: an introduction; title: Trollope and Oliphant; title: Protective Rivalry: Mary Cholmondeley; title: and William Hamilton; title: 6 Changing Places: Siblings and Cross-Gendering; title: The Brontes; title: Walter Pater; title: Sarah Grand's Heavenly Twins; title: Eliza Lynn Linton's Christopher Kirkland; title: 7 'Most Unwillingly Alive': Brothers and Sisters; title: in the First World War; title: Virginia Woolf; title: Vera Brittain and Rebecca West; title: Katherine Mansfield; title: Conclusion; title: Conclusion; title: Notes; title: Bibliography; title: Index.