Family Matters in the British and American Novel - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0879727462 ISBN 13: 9780879727468

Publisher: Popular Press 1, 1997

Synopsis

Contributors examine the literature that challenges widely held assumptions about the form of the family, familial authority patterns, and the function of courtship, marriage, and family life from the late eighteenth century to the present day. Topics include: the family as a microcosm of the larger political sphere in Charlotte Smith, Jane West, Elizabeth Fenwick, Mrs. Opie, and Mary Shelley, and alternatives to the nuclear patriarchal family in Charlotte Brontė, Harriet Jacobs, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and Mary Louisa Molesworth.

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Family Matters In The British And American Novel examines the literature that challenges and alters widely held assumptions about the form of the family, familial authority patterns, and the function of courtship, marriage, and family life from the late 18th century to the present day. The thirteen essays in this collection view the family from a variety of perspectives: the family as a microcosm of the larger political sphere; alternatives to the nuclear patriarchal family; step-mothering; women's familial roles; fathering and step-fathering; racial discrimination and its effect on the black family; and reinventing the modern American family. Family Matters is an impressive body of literary and social scholarship. -- Midwest Book Review

About this edition

• Publisher: Popular Press 1
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0879727462
• ISBN 13: 9780879727468
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304
• Editor: Herrera Andrea O’Reilly, Nollen Elizabeth, Foor Sheila Reitzel