A prison of expectations : the family in Victorian culture

著者

• Mintz, Steven

書誌事項

A prison of expectations : the family in Victorian culture

Steven Mintz

New York University Press, 1985, c1983

• pbk

注記

Bibliography: p. [223]-229

Includes index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

The stereotypical Victorian family, although represented in innumerable daguerrotypes, is as much fantasy as reality. The Victorian family took many forms, and in this ambitious and highly original book, Steven Mintz enters five different homes in order to shed light on critical aspects of middle-class character and family during the era. By investigating the private lives of five of the most famous and influential novelists--Robert Louis Stevenson, George Eliot, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Catharine Sedgwick, and Samuel Butler--Mintz traces patterns of intersection between family dynamics and larger cultural problems of authority, legitimacy, and discipline in nineteenth-century Britain and America. More specifically, he explores the struggles to achieve a personal independence within a Victorian home and the larger historical struggle to adapt the older traditions of deference, authority, and responsibility to the emerging realities of a democratic age.

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BA04214495
• ISBN:
  • 0814753884
  • 0814753914
• LCCN: 82014481
• 出版国コード: us
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: New York
• ページ数/冊数: xiii, 234 p.
• 大きさ: 23 cm
• 分類:
  • LCC : HQ613
  • DC19 : 306.85
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Family -- England -- History -- 19th century -- Case studies
  • LCSH : Family -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Case studies
  • LCSH : Middle classes -- England -- History -- 19th century -- Case studies
  • LCSH : Middle classes -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Case studies
  • LCSH : Authors, English -- 19th century -- Political and social views
  • LCSH : Authors, American -- 19th century -- Political and social views