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Sisters and the English household : = domesticity and women's autonomy in nineteenth-century English literature /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Sisters and the English household :/ Anne D. Wallace.
Reminder of title:	domesticity and women's autonomy in nineteenth-century English literature /
Author:	Wallace, Anne D.,
Description:	1 online resource (x, 203 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 30 May 2019).
Subject:	Sex role in literature. -
Online resource:	https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9781783088461/type/BOOK
ISBN:	9781783088461 (ebook)

Sisters and the English household : = domesticity and women's autonomy in nineteenth-century English literature /
Wallace, Anne D.,

Sisters and the English household :domesticity and women's autonomy in nineteenth-century English literature /Anne D. Wallace. - 1 online resource (x, 203 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). - Anthem nineteenth-century series. - Anthem nineteenth-century series..

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 30 May 2019).

"Alternative domesticities: re-valuing the sibling in the house" -- "'Out into the orchard': the departure of the sibling in the house" -- "The problem of the sister in the house" -- "George Eliot's natural history of the English family'".

Sisters and the English Household revalues unmarried adult sisters in nineteenth-century English literature as positive figures of legal and economic autonomy representing productive labor in the domestic space. As a crucial site of contested values, the adult unmarried sister carries the discursive weight of sustained public debates about ideals of domesticity in nineteenth-century England. Engaging scholarly histories of the family, and providing a detailed account of the 70-year Marriage with a Deceased Wife's Sister controversy, Anne Wallace traces an alternative domesticity anchored by adult sibling relations through Dorothy Wordsworth's journals; William Wordsworth's poetry; Mary Lamb's essay "On Needle-Work"; and novels by Jane Austen, Elizabeth Gaskell, Charles Dickens, Dinah Mulock Craik and George Eliot. Recognizing adult sibling relationships, and the figure of the adult unmarried sibling in the household, as primary and generative rather than contingent and dependent, and recognizing material economy and law as fundamental sources of sibling identity, Sisters and the English Household resets the conditions for literary critical discussions of sibling relations in nineteenth-century England.

ISBN: 9781783088461 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

556772
Sex role in literature.

LC Class. No.: PR468.S53 / W35 2018

Dewey Class. No.: 820.9/352209034

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