Dickens and the Politics of the Family
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- Author: Catherine Waters, University of New England, Australia
- Date Published: October 2005
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- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521021159
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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.
Read more- New insight into one of the main themes of Dickens's fictions
- New readings of Dickens's novels in the light of feminist and new historicist theories
- Sets Dickens's novels in context of contemporary ideologies
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'… let me begin by asserting simply that Catherine Walter's Dickens and the Politics of the Family is a very good book, certainly among the best on Dickens to be published in the past few years.' Dickens Quarterly
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- Date Published: October 2005
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521021159
- length: 248 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 14 mm
- weight: 0.37kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. Introduction: the making and breaking of the family
2. Fractured families in the early novels: Oliver Twist and Dombey and Son
3, Dickens, Christmas and the family
4. Little Dorrit
5. A Tale of Two Cities
6. Great Expectations
7. Our Mutual Friend
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