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Author:

Hatten, Charles, 1957-

Title:

The end of domesticity : alienation from the family in Dickens, Eliot, and James / Charles Hatten.

Publisher:

University of Delaware Press,

Copyright Date:

c2010

Description:

316 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Domestic fiction, English--History and criticism.
English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
Literature and society--Great Britain--History--19th century.
Domestic fiction, American--History and criticism.
American fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
Literature and society--United States--History--19th century.
Dickens, Charles,--1812-1870--Criticism and interpretation.
Eliot, George,--1819-1880--Criticism and interpretation.
James, Henry,--1843-1916--Criticism and interpretation.
Dysfunctional families in literature.
Home in literature
Families in literature.
Sex role in literature

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction: the end of domesticity -- Disciplining the family in Barnaby Rudge and Dombey and son : Dickens's professionalization of fiction -- David Copperfield and after : Dickens and the impasse of domesticity -- The crisis of community and the historicization of the feminine in The mill on the floss -- Marital alienation, national destiny, and the novel of spiritual malaise in Daniel Deronda -- The smashed window : Henry James, the fin de si©·cle, and the prostitution of love and art in The wings of the dove -- Afterword : modernism and the alienation of the domestic.

ISBN:

0874130751 (alk. paper)
9780874130751 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)319868514

LCCN:

2009017434

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)