Avuncularism: Capitalism, Patriarchy, and Nineteenth-Century English Culture

by Eileen Cleere

Book Overview

Avuncularism argues that the famously "nuclear" family of nineteenth-century literature and culture was, in fact, far more fractured and contradictory than twentieth-century critics have assumed. Instead, Cleere isolates an alternative paradigm of the "avunculate," suggesting that an interest in Uncles rather than Fathers marks a preoccupation with the increasingly theorized and embattled directives of a new political economy.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804750254
• ISBN13: 9780804750257
• Release Date: May 2004
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"