Dickens and the Politics of the Family - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dickens and the Politics of the Family write by Catherine Waters. This book was released on 1997-07-03. Dickens and the Politics of the Family available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
The Politics of the Family in Dickens's Fiction
The Politics of the Family in Dickens's Fiction - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Politics of the Family in Dickens's Fiction write by Catherine Waters. This book was released on 1992. The Politics of the Family in Dickens's Fiction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Queer Dickens
Queer Dickens - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Queer Dickens write by Holly Furneaux. This book was released on 2009-12-10. Queer Dickens available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book offers a radically new reading of Dickens and his major works. It demonstrates that, rather than representing a largely conventional, conservative view of sexuality and gender, he presents a distinctly queer corpus, everywhere fascinated by the diversity of gender roles, the expandability of notions of the family, and the complex multiplicity of sexual desire. The book examines the long overlooked figures of bachelor fathers, maritally resistant men, and male nurses. It explores Dickens's attention to a longing, not to reproduce, but to nurture, his interest in healing touch, and his articulation, over the course of his career, of homoerotic desire. Holly Furneaux places Dickens's writing in a broad literary and social context, alongside authors including Bulwer-Lytton, Tennyson, Braddon, Collins, and Whitman, to make a case for Dickens's central position in queer literary history. Examining novels, poetry, life-writing, journalism, and legal and political debates, Queer Dickens argues that this eminent Victorian can direct us to the ways in which his culture could, and did, comfortably accommodate homoeroticism and families of choice. Further, it contends that Dickens's portrayals of nurturing masculinity and his concern with touch and affect between men challenge what we have been used to thinking about Victorian ideals of maleness. Queer Dickens intervenes in current debates about the Victorians (neither so punitive nor so prudish as we once imagined) and about the methodologies of the histories of the family and of sexuality. It makes the case for a more optimistic, nurturing, and life-affirming trajectory in queer theory.
Charles Dickens and the Street Children of London
Charles Dickens and the Street Children of London - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Charles Dickens and the Street Children of London write by Andrea Warren. This book was released on 2011. Charles Dickens and the Street Children of London available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The motivations behind Dickens' novels and the poverty-stricken world of 19th century London.
Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Charles Dickens write by Mamie Dickens. This book was released on 2000. Charles Dickens available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
