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Fatherhood, Authority, and British Reading Culture, 1831-1907

Autor Melissa Shields Jenkins
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 noi 2016
During a period when the idea of fatherhood was in flux and individual fathers sought to regain a cohesive collective identity, debates related to a father’s authority were negotiated and resolved through competing documents. Melissa Shields Jenkins analyzes the evolution of patriarchal authority in nineteenth-century culture, drawing from extra-literary and non-narrative source material as well as from novels. Arguing that Victorian novelists reinvent patriarchy by recourse to conduct books, biography, religious manuals, political speeches, and professional writing in the fields of history and science, Jenkins offers interdisciplinary case studies of Elizabeth Gaskell, George Meredith, William Makepeace Thackeray, George Eliot, Samuel Butler, and Thomas Hardy. Jenkins’s book contributes to our understanding of the part played by fathers in the Victorian cultural imagination, and sheds new light on the structures underlying the Victorian novel.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781138257849
ISBN-10: 1138257842
Pagini: 216
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 12 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

Melissa Shields Jenkins is Assistant Professor of English at Wake Forest University, USA.

Recenzii

'This is a distinctly new kind of book on fatherhood: an innovative study of the troubled relations between real and fictional fathers and sons, and the extra-literary texts that shaped them. Juxtaposing J.S. Mill and Max Weber, Melissa Jenkins's lively and provocative analysis tracks shifting notions of patriarchal authority from Gaskell to Gosse through engagement with conduct books and family prayers, palimpsests and science writing, to create an "idea of the father" perpetually under reconstruction.' Valerie Sanders, University of Hull, UK '... a fresh interdisciplinary study that will interest scholars in both masculinity studies and genre studies.' Review of English Studies '[An] insightful book ... Scholars will certainly benefit from the book's impressive research and perceptive observations. It offers insights ... which emerge readily from the many wonderfully suggestive correspondences and metaphoric echoes Jenkins discovers within and between her texts.' Journal of British Studies

Cuprins

Introduction; Part I Traditional Authority; Chapter 1 Elizabeth Gaskell Writes a Father’s Life; Chapter 2 A Father’s Conduct: George Meredith and the Book-within-a-Book; Part II Charismatic Authority; Chapter 3 “An Attitude of Decent Reverence”: Thackeray and the Father at Prayer; Chapter 4 “Lay Hold of Them by Their Fatherhood”: George Eliot, Persuasion, and Abstraction; Part III Legal-Rational Authority; Chapter 5 Samuel Butler at the Museum; Chapter 6 “Preserve the Shadow of the Form”: Hardy’s Palimpsests; conclusion The Father as “Type”;

Descriere

In analyzing the evolution of patriarchal authority in nineteenth-century culture, Melissa Shields Jenkins argues that Victorian novelists found new models within non-narrative forms such as conduct books, biography, religious manuals, political speeches and professional writing in the fields of history and science. Jenkins’s book contributes to our understanding of the part played by fathers in the Victorian cultural imagination, and sheds new light on the structures underlying the Victorian novel.