Professional Domesticity in the Victorian Novel Women, Work and Home |
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| Author:
| Cohen, Monica F. |
| Contribution by:
| Beer, Gillian |
| Series title: | Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-521-59141-6 |
| Publication Date: | Feb 1998 |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $141.00 |
Book Description:
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Questioning the stereotypes associated with Victorian domesticity, Monica F. Cohen offers new readings of narratives by Austen, Charlotte Brontë, Dickens, Eliot, Eden, Gaskell, Oliphant and Reade. Cohen traces ways in which domestic work, often perceived as the most feminine of all activities, gained social credibility through being described in the vocabulary of ninetenth-century professionalism. She shows how women sought identity and privilege within Victorian culture, and revises...
More DescriptionQuestioning the stereotypes associated with Victorian domesticity, Monica F. Cohen offers new readings of narratives by Austen, Charlotte Brontë, Dickens, Eliot, Eden, Gaskell, Oliphant and Reade. Cohen traces ways in which domestic work, often perceived as the most feminine of all activities, gained social credibility through being described in the vocabulary of ninetenth-century professionalism. She shows how women sought identity and privilege within Victorian culture, and revises our understanding of nineteenth-century domestic ideology.