Professional Domesticity in the Victorian Novel: Women, Work and Home

by Monica Feinberg Cohen

Book Overview

Much attention has recently been given by scholars to the widening of the gender gap in the nineteenth century and the concept of separate spheres. Testing such constructions, and questioning the stereotypes associated with Victorian domesticity, Monica F. Cohen offers new readings of narratives by Austen, Charlotte Bront?, Dickens, Eliot, Eden, Gaskell, Oliphant and Reade to show how domestic work, the most feminine of all activities, gained much...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521591414
• ISBN13: 9780521591416
• Release Date: February 1998
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"