Download or read book Dickens and the Politics of the Family written by Catherine Waters and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-07-03 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Politics of the Family in Dickens s Fiction written by Catherine Waters and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 998 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Queer Dickens written by Holly Furneaux and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2009-12-10 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Dickens Family Authorship written by Lynn Cain and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2008 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This substantial study of the four novels published between 1843 and 1853 - Martin Chuzzlewit, Dombey and Son, David Copperfield and Bleak House - discovers in the representation of family relationships a paradigm for Dickens's authorial development during this turbulent decade. Interweaving textual analysis with biography and a wide range of modern theorists, it provides a provocative account of the evolution of an author whose psychological insights anticipated Freudian and post-Freudian theory.
Download or read book Charles Dickens written by Mamie Dickens and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Charles Dickens written by Norman Page and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Charles Dickens and His Family written by William Henry Bowen and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Charles Dickens and the Street Children of London written by Andrea Warren and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2011 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The motivations behind Dickens' novels and the poverty-stricken world of 19th century London.
Download or read book The Dickens Family Gospel written by Robert C. Hanna and published by Legacy Press. This book was released on 1998-08-01 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique family devotional guide combines Charles Dickens' beloved retelling of the Gospel with educator Robert Hanna's thoughtful and engaging activities. Designed for adults to read with children, this book's creative projects and clever stories involve all ages in Bible learning. The result is a hands-on Christian education tool which captures the family spirit of Dickens' Christian education in his own household.
Download or read book Charles Dickens written by Mamie Dickens and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Charles Dickens and the Victorian Middle class Family written by Chao-ming Chen and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The End of Domesticity written by Charles Hatten and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In The End of Domesticity, Charles Hatten offers a provocative theory for this seminal shift which even now shapes literary depictions of the family. Discussing works by Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and Henry James, Hatten shows how these major writers anticipate the modernist preoccupation with domestic alienation while responding to their own historical context of changes in, and controversies about, gender roles and the family. Most originally, Hatten argues that these writers' representations of gender and domesticity are strongly influenced by anxieties about capitalism and the marketplace." "Beginning with Dickens, Hatten traces how such early fictions as Barnaby Rudge and Dombey and Son diagnose familial dysfunction as evidence not only of individual moral failure but of the negative effects of the marketplace on family life, effects that Dickens believed could be counterbalanced by an idealized model of domesticity that relies on maternal nurturance and feminine self-sacrifice. Yet even in such apparently triumphant celebrations of the family as David Copperfield. Dickens becomes disillusioned with his own model, showing the high cost of domesticity for women, while increasingly blaming failed families on women's unwillingness to fulfill their proper duties." "In a radical revision of traditional domestic narrative, Eliot, in The Mill on the Floss and Daniel Deronda, revises Dickens's conservative gender politics to emphasize the inevitability, and the desirability, of women modifying their social roles in response to historical change, even while she too is anxious about women's ability wholly to transcend the materialist values of the age. Finally, Hatten shows how in James's late work, most notably The Wings of the Dove, darkly ironic narratives of courtship and marriage symbolize the destructive effects of economic coercionon human values and the obsolescence of traditional gender roles, themes that anticipate the pessimistic and alienated reading of family life in many modernist texts." "Demonstrating a sophisticated awareness of the interconnectedness of economic pressures and changing gender roles on late Victorian literary culture, The End of Domesticity contributes significantly to Victorian studies by offering a persuasive reading of how, within a few decades, Victorian writers paved the way for the sharply unsentimental and ironic view of marriage and the family in modernist fiction. Situating major texts of Victorian domestic fiction in the context both of writers' lives and their complex historical moment, The End of Domesticity shows how the corrosive effects of economic forces on courtship, marriage, and family life become the foundation for a literary critique of the negative effects of the market on the individual, a critique that also increasingly underscores tensions within traditional forms of gender and domesticity." --Book Jacket.
Download or read book Charles Dickens and Georgina Hogarth written by Christine Skelton and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2023-04-18 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Dickens called his sister-in-law Georgina Hogarth his ‘best and truest friend’. Georgina saw Dickens as much more than a friend. They lived together for twenty-eight years, during which time their relationship constantly changed. The sister of his wife Catherine, the sharp and witty Georgina moved into the Dickens home aged fifteen. What began as a father–daughter relationship blossomed into a genuine rapport, but their easy relations were fractured when Dickens had a mid-life crisis and determined to rid himself of Catherine. Georgina’s refusal to leave Dickens and his desire for her to remain in his household led to rumours of an affair and even illegitimate children. He left her the equivalent of almost £1 million and all his personal papers in his will. Georgina’s commitment to Dickens was unwavering but it is far from clear what he did to deserve such loyalty. There were several occasions when he misused her in order to protect his public reputation. Why did Georgina betray her once much-loved sister? Why did she fall out with her family and risk her reputation in order to stay with Dickens? And why did the Dickenses’ daughter Katey say it was ‘the greatest mistake ever’ to invite a sister-in-law to live with a family?
Download or read book The Spectacle of Intimacy written by Karen Chase and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2000-06-25 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love of home life, the intimate moments a family peacefully enjoyed in seclusion, had long been considered a hallmark of English character even before the Victorian era. But the Victorians attached unprecedented importance to domesticity, romanticizing the family in every medium from novels to government reports, to the point where actual families felt anxious and the public developed a fierce appetite for scandal. Here Karen Chase and Michael Levenson explore how intimacy became a spectacle and how this paradox energized Victorian culture between 1835 and 1865. They tell a story of a society continually perfecting the forms of private pleasure and yet forever finding its secrets exposed to view. The friction between the two conditions sparks insightful discussions of authority and sentiment, empire and middle-class politics. The book recovers neglected episodes of this mid-century drama: the adultery trial of Caroline Norton and the Prime Minister, Lord Melbourne; the Bedchamber Crisis of the young Queen Victoria; the Bloomer craze of the 1850s; and Robert Kerr's influential treatise, celebrating the ideal of the English Gentleman's House. The literary representation of household life--in Dickens, Tennyson, Ellis, and Oliphant, among others--is placed in relation to such public spectacles as the Deceased Wife's Sister Bill of 1848, the controversy over divorce in the years 1854-1857, and the triumphant return of Florence Nightingale from the Crimea. These colorful incidents create a telling new portrait of Victorian family life, one that demands a fundamental rethinking of the relation between public and private spheres.
Download or read book Queer Dickens written by Holly Furneaux and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2009-12-10 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a radically new reading of Dickens. It argues that, rather than representing a largely conventional, conservative view of sexuality and gender, his corpus is distinctly queer, displaying a fascination with the diversity of gender roles, the expandability of notions of the family, and the multiplicity of sexual desire.
Download or read book A Tale of Two Cities written by Charles Dickens and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-09-08 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Tale of Two Cities, a story of revolution, revenge and sacrifice, is one of Charles Dickens' most exciting novels. Set against the backdrop of the French Revolution, it tells the story of a family threatened by the terrible events of the past. Dr Manette, wrongly imprisoned in the Bastille for eighteen years, is finally released and reunited with his daughter Lucie who, despite her French ancestry, has been brought up in London. Lucie falls in love with Charles Darnay, who has abandoned both wealth and title in France because of his political convictions. When revolution breaks out in Paris, Darnay returns to the city to help an old family servant, but is soon arrested because of the crimes committed by his relations. Lucie, aided by young lawyer, Sydney Carton, follows him across the Channel, thus putting all their lives in danger. With an afterword by Sam Gilpin. Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.
Download or read book The Other Dickens written by Lillian Nayder and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-01 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catherine Hogarth, who came from a cultured Scots family, married Charles Dickens in 1836, the same year he began serializing his first novel. Together they traveled widely, entertained frequently, and raised ten children. In 1858, the celebrated writer pressured Catherine to leave their home, unjustly alleging that she was mentally disordered-unfit and unloved as wife and mother. Constructing a plotline nearly as powerful as his stories of Scrooge and Little Nell, Dickens created the image of his wife as a depressed and uninteresting figure, using two of her three sisters against her, by measuring her presumed weaknesses against their strengths. This self-serving fiction is still widely accepted. In the first comprehensive biography of Catherine Dickens, Lillian Nayder debunks this tale in retelling it, wresting away from the famous novelist the power to shape his wife's story. Nayder demonstrates that the Dickenses' marriage was long a happy one; more important, she shows that the figure we know only as "Mrs. Charles Dickens" was also a daughter, sister, and friend, a loving mother and grandmother, a capable household manager, and an intelligent person whose company was valued and sought by a wide circle of women and men. Making use of the Dickenses' banking records and legal papers as well as their correspondence with friends and family members, Nayder challenges the long-standing view of Catherine Dickens and offers unparalleled insights into the relations among the four Hogarth sisters, reclaiming those cherished by the famous novelist as Catherine's own and illuminating her special bond with her youngest sister, Helen, her staunchest ally during the marital breakdown. Drawing on little-known, unpublished material and forcing Catherine's husband from center stage, The Other Dickens revolutionizes our perception of the Dickens family dynamic, illuminates the legal and emotional ambiguities of Catherine's position as a "single" wife, and deepens our understanding of what it meant to be a woman in the Victorian age.
