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Dickens and the Politics of the Family Book

The fictional representation of the family has long been regarded as a Dieckensian speciality; yet 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. Drawing upon feminist and new historicist methodologies, Catherine Waters argues that Dickens's novels record a shift in notions of the family away from 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

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  • 0521021154
  • 9780521021159
  • Catherine Waters
  • 20 October 2005
  • Cambridge University Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 248
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