The End of Domesticity: Alienation from the Family in Dickens, Eliot, and James

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The End of Domesticity: Alienation from the Family in Dickens, Eliot, and James

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Few changes in literary history are as dramatic as the replacement of the sentimental image of the home in Victorian fiction by the emphasis in modernist fiction on dysfunctional families and domestic alienation. In The End of Domesticity Charles Hatten offers a provocative theory for this seminal shift that even now shapes literary depictions of the family.

Department

English

ISBN

9780874130751

Publication Date

2010

Publisher

University of Delaware Press

City

Newark

Keywords

Domestic Life, Home Life, Family, Victorian Era, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Henry James

Disciplines

American Literature | Fiction | Literature in English, Anglophone outside British Isles and North America | Literature in English, British Isles | Modern Literature | United States History

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