Title: Disorderly sisters
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.
Subjects: Brothers and sisters in literature, English Domestic fiction, English fiction, History and criticism, Sisters in literature, English fiction, history and criticism, 19th century, Family in literature, Domestic fiction, history and criticism, Siblings in literature, Sibling rivalry in literature
Time periods: 19th century