Professional domesticity in the Victorian novel : women, work and home /

Professional domesticity in the Victorian novel : women, work and home /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Cohen, Monica F.
Imprint:	Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Description:	xi, 216 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture 14
Subject:	Domestic fiction, English -- History and criticism. English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism. Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century. Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century. Domestic relations in literature. Occupations in literature. Sex role in literature. Women in literature. Home in literature. Work in literature. Domestic fiction, English. Domestic relations in literature. English fiction. Home in literature. Literature and society. Occupations in literature. Sex role in literature. Women and literature. Women in literature. Work in literature. Great Britain. Criticism, interpretation, etc. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2960523

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ISBN:	0521591414
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-213) and index.

Table of Contents:

Preface
1. Persuading the navy home: Austen and professional domesticism
2. Homesick: the domestic interiors of Villette
3. Great Expectations and vocational domesticity
4. Little Dorrit in a home and the institutionalisation of form
5. Professing renunciation: domesticity in Felix Holt
6. A prejudice for milk: professionalism, nationalism and domesticism in Daniel Deronda; Afterword