Avuncularism : capitalism, patriarchy, and nineteenth-century English culture
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Avuncularism : capitalism, patriarchy, and nineteenth-century English culture
Stanford University Press, 2004
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Avuncularism : capitalism, patriarchy, and 19th-century English culture
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Includes index
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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.
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