Fathers in Victorian FictionPevná vazba
Fathers in Victorian FictionPevná vazba This book examines the changing roles of fathers in the nineteenth century as seen in the lives and fiction of Victorian authors. The Industrial Revolution…
Specifikacia Fathers in Victorian FictionPevná vazba
Fathers in Victorian FictionPevná vazba
This book examines the changing roles of fathers in the nineteenth century as seen in the lives and fiction of Victorian authors. The Industrial Revolution moved work out of the home for many men, diminishing contact between fathers and their children. Fatherhood underwent unprecedented change during this period.
Conflicting and frustrating expectations of fathers and the growing disillusionment with other paternal authorities such as church and state yielded memorable portrayals of fathers from the best novelists of the age. Yet fatherhood continued to be seen as the ultimate expression of masculinity, and being involved with the lives of one's children was essential to being a good father. The essays in this volume explore how Victorian authors (the Brontes, Dickens, Gaskell, Trollope, Eliot, Hardy, and Elizabeth Sewall and Mary Augusta Ward) responded to these tensions in their lives
Victorian Fairy TalesPevná vazba
Theatre in the Victorian Age
Life in the Victorian Asylum