Sisters and the English Household
Sisters and the English Household revalues unmarried adult sisters in nineteenthcentury English literature as positive figures of legal and economic autonomy representing productive labor in the domestic space. As a crucial site of contested values, the adult unmarried sister carries the discursive...
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| description | Sisters and the English Household revalues unmarried adult sisters in nineteenthcentury English literature as positive figures of legal and economic autonomy representing productive labor in the domestic space. As a crucial site of contested values, the adult unmarried sister carries the discursive weight of sustained public debates about ideals of domesticity in nineteenth-century England. Engaging scholarly histories of the family, and providing a detailed account of the 70-year Marriage with a Deceased Wife’s Sister controversy, Anne Wallace traces an alternative domesticity anchored by adult sibling relations through Dorothy Wordsworth’s journals; William Wordsworth’s poetry; Mary Lamb’s essay “On Needle-Work”; and novels by Jane Austen, Elizabeth Gaskell, Charles Dickens, Dinah Mulock Craik and George Eliot. Recognizing adult sibling relationships, and the figure of the adult unmarried sibling in the household, as primary and generative rather than contingent and dependent, and recognizing material economy and law as fundamental sources of sibling identity, Sisters and the English Household resets the conditions for literary critical discussions of sibling relations in nineteenth-century England. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-782212025-07-30T13:33:30Z Sisters and the English Household Wallace, Anne D. Literary Criticism European English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Literary Criticism Subjects & Themes Historical Events Literary Criticism Subjects & Themes Women thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism Sisters and the English Household revalues unmarried adult sisters in nineteenthcentury English literature as positive figures of legal and economic autonomy representing productive labor in the domestic space. As a crucial site of contested values, the adult unmarried sister carries the discursive weight of sustained public debates about ideals of domesticity in nineteenth-century England. Engaging scholarly histories of the family, and providing a detailed account of the 70-year Marriage with a Deceased Wife’s Sister controversy, Anne Wallace traces an alternative domesticity anchored by adult sibling relations through Dorothy Wordsworth’s journals; William Wordsworth’s poetry; Mary Lamb’s essay “On Needle-Work”; and novels by Jane Austen, Elizabeth Gaskell, Charles Dickens, Dinah Mulock Craik and George Eliot. Recognizing adult sibling relationships, and the figure of the adult unmarried sibling in the household, as primary and generative rather than contingent and dependent, and recognizing material economy and law as fundamental sources of sibling identity, Sisters and the English Household resets the conditions for literary critical discussions of sibling relations in nineteenth-century England. 2022-02-13T04:00:54Z 2022-02-13T04:00:54Z 2022-02-12T05:32:44Z 2018 book OCN: 1052613254 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/52816 9781783088454 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/78221 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/52816/1/external_content.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/52816/1/external_content.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/52816/1/external_content.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/52816/1/external_content.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/52816/1/external_content.pdf Anthem Press Anthem Press 59273844-64fe-49c8-95f1-50c944bee7e9 Knowledge Unlatched 9781783088454 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) KU Select 2022: HSS Backlist Books Anthem Press open access |
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