Dissenting Women in Dickens' Novels: The Subversion of Domestic Ideology

by Brenda Ayres

Given their pedagogical nature, many Victorian novels are highly politicized; their narratives are filtered through the value schemes, social views, and conscious purposes of their authors. Victorian women were largely expected to dedicate themselves to the social and moral betterment of their families. Women were expected to be soft, meek, quiet, modest, submissive, gentle, patient, and spiritual; men were supposed to be aggressive, assertive,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313307636
• ISBN13: 9780313307638
• Release Date: July 1998
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.5"