Family Ties in Victorian England

by Claudia Nelson

Book Overview

The Victorians were passionate about family. While Queen Victoria's supporters argued that her intense commitment to her private life made her the more fit to mother her people, her critics charged that it distracted her from her public responsibilities. Here, Nelson focuses particularly on the conflicting and powerful images of family life that Victorians produced in their fiction and nonfiction--that is, on how the Victorians themselves conceived...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275986977
• ISBN13: 9780275986971
• Release Date: February 2007
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.5"