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Professional Domesticity in the Victorian Novel
Monica F. Cohen
其他書名
Women, Work and Home
出版Cambridge University Press, 1998-02-05
主題Literary Criticism / GeneralLiterary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, WelshLiterary Criticism / Women AuthorsLiterary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / WomenLiterary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / Gender IdentitySocial Science / Gender Studies
ISBN05215914149780521591416
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=KzxdSqQy5gUC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Much attention has recently been given by scholars to the widening of the gender gap in the nineteenth century and the concept of separate spheres. Testing such constructions, and 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 to show how domestic work, the most feminine of all activities, gained much of its social credibility by positioning itself in relation to the emergent professions. By exploring how novels cast the Victorian conception of female morality into the vocabulary of nineteenth-century professionalism, Cohen traces the ways in which women sought identity and privilege within a professionalised culture, and revises our understanding of Victorian domestic ideology.