The end of domesticity

The end of domesticity

alienation from the family in Dickens, Eliot, and James

by Charles Hatten
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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 o.

Format
316 pages, Hardcover
First published
2009
Publishers
University of Delaware Press
Subjects
Dickens·Charles·1812-1870·Criticism and interpretation·Eliot·George·1819-1880·Criticism and interpretation·James·Henry·1843-1916·Criticism and interpretation·Domestic fiction·English·History and criticism·English fict
Language
English

Nothing is perfect, no matter how it appears to be painted. "The End of Domesticity: Alienation from the Family in Dickens, Eliot, and James" discusses how the realization of the dysfunctional family came to be in literature.

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