Fathers in Victorian fiction / edited by Natalie McKnight.

This book examines the changing roles of fathers in the nineteenth century as seen in the lives and fiction of Victorian authors. Fatherhood underwent unprecedented change during this period. The Industrial Revolution moved work out of the home for many men, diminishing contact between fathers and t...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	McKnight, Natalie
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Newcastle : Cambridge Scholars, 2011.
Subjects:	1800-1899 Fatherhood in literature. English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism. Fathers in literature. Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900. Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers. Gender studies: men. LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. English fiction Fatherhood in literature Fathers in literature Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:

Introduction : Undermining the Victorian father / Natalie McKnight
Father of the Brontës : romantic or Victorian? / Christine Alexander
Dickens's Hard times : the father as tragic clown / Michael Hollington
Dickens's philosophy of fathering / Natalie McKnight
Victorian fatherhood and clerical conscience : crises of paternal authority in Gaskell and Trollope / Elizabeth Bridgham
Bless me, father : religion and the good girl in Elizabeth Sewell's Margaret Percival and Mary Augusta Ward's Helbeck of Bannisdale / Meoghan Cronin
Buried secrets : lost fathers in Bleak house / Monica M. Young-Zook
"The rights 'o things by my own fireside" : masculinity and fatherhood in George Eliot's fiction / Natalie B. Cole
"You are 'father,' you know" : Hardy's palimpsests / Melissa Jenkins
Victorian fathers on film : Dickens's fathers as the precursor of the modern sensitive dad / Regina Hansen
Conclusion : Just wait until your father comes home / Natalie McKnight.

Fathers in Victorian fiction / edited by Natalie McKnight.

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