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Avuncularism
Eileen Cleere
其他書名
Capitalism, Patriarchy, and Nineteenth-Century English Culture
出版Stanford University Press, 2004
主題Literary Criticism / ReferenceLiterary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
ISBN08047502549780804750257
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=Gj-uBwgYTUcC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Avuncularism explores the fiction of Jane Austen, George Eliot, Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope, and many other writers in order to argue that the "nuclear" nineteenth-century family was, in fact, far more fractured and contradictory than twentieth-century critics have assumed. One important and long-forgotten point of such fracture is the popular nickname given to pawnbrokers in the Victorian era: My Uncle. This fundamental connection between pawnbrokers and uncles provides the touchstone of the author's larger argument: that representations of the "avunculate" (a term borrowed from anthropology) in nineteenth-century literature and culture mark a preoccupation with the increasingly theorized and embattled directives of a new political economy.