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The Victorian family : structure and stresses

Title
The Victorian family : structure and stresses / edited by Anthony S. Wohl.
Publication
London : Croom Helm, ©1978.

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Additional Authors
Wohl, Anthony S.
Description
224 pages; 23 cm
Subjects
Genre/Form
History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction / Anthony S. Wohl -- Part One: Preparation and Possession ; 'Temple and Sewer': Childbirth, Prudery and Victoria Regina / John Hawkins Miller ; 'As the Twig is Bent': the Victorian Nanny / Theresa McBride ; the Paterfamilias of the Victorian Governing Classes / David Roberts ; Love and Possession in a Victorian Household: the Example of the Ruskins / Michael Brooks ; Family Secrets and Domestic Subversion: Rebellion in the Novels of the 1860s / Elaine Showalter -- Part Two: Kinship and Community ; Victorian Reform as a Family Business: the Hill Family / Deborah Gorham ; Family Disintegration and Creative Reintegration: the Case of Charlotte Brontë and Jane Eyre / Maurianne Adams ; The Family and the Mill: Cotton Mill Work, Family Work Patterns and Fertility in Mid-Victorian Stockport / R. Burr-Litchfield ; Sex and the Single Room: Incest among the Victorian Working Classes / Anthony S. Wohl.
ISBN
  • 0856644382
  • 9780856644382
  • 0312842767
  • 9780312842765
LCCN
78309141
OCLC
  • ocm04175959
  • 4175959
  • SCSB-14704048
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library