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Cambridge University Press Dickens and the Politics of the Family

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Product Description The fictional representation of the family has long been regarded as a Dickensian speciality. But while nineteenth-century reviewers praised Dickens as the pre-eminent novelist of the family, any close examination of his novels reveals a remarkable disjunction between his image as the quintessential celebrant of the hearth, and his interest in fractured families. Catherine Waters offers an explanation of this discrepancy through an examination of Dickens's representation of the family in relation to nineteenth-century constructions of class and gender. Drawing upon feminist and new historicist methodologies, and focusing upon the normalising function of middle-class domestic ideology, Waters concludes that Dickens's novels record a shift in notions of the family away from an earlier stress upon the importance of lineage and blood towards a new ideal of domesticity assumed to be the natural form of the family. Review '… let me begin by asserting simply that Catherine Walter's Dickens and the Politics of the Family is a very good book, certainly among the best on Dickens to be published in the past few years.' Dickens Quarterly Book Description Examination of the representation of the family in Dickens's novels.

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Brand: Cambridge University Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0521573556
Category: Books > Subjects > Poetry, Drama & Criticism > History & Criticism > Literary Theory & Movements
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 03 July 1997
Listed Since: 04 January 2007

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