Avuncularism Capitalism, Patriarchy, and Nineteenth-Century English Culture |
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| Author:
| Cleere, Eileen |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8047-5025-7 |
| Publication Date: | May 2004 |
| Publisher: | Stanford University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $75.00 |
Book Description:
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Avuncularism argues that the famously "nuclear" family of nineteenth-century literature and culture was, in fact, far more fractured and contradictory than twentieth-century critics have assumed. Instead, Cleere isolates an alternative paradigm of the "avunculate," suggesting that an interest in Uncles rather than Fathers marks a preoccupation with the increasingly theorized and embattled directives of a new political economy.
Avuncularism argues that the famously "nuclear" family of nineteenth-century literature and culture was, in fact, far more fractured and contradictory than twentieth-century critics have assumed. Instead, Cleere isolates an alternative paradigm of the "avunculate," suggesting that an interest in Uncles rather than Fathers marks a preoccupation with the increasingly theorized and embattled directives of a new political economy.