Title
- Victorian Literature And Culture Series
Attribution
Laura C. BerryPublication Details
BookUniversity Press of Virginia1999Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) PR878.C5 B47 1999 AVAILABLE New Feature: Text this to your cellphone
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Focusing on classic childhood stories such as Oliver Twist and novels that are not conventionally associated with particular social problems, such as Dickens’s Dombey and Son, the Bront sisters’ Wuthering Heights and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, and George Eliot’s Adam Bede, Berry shows the ways in which fiction that purports to deal with private life, particularly the domain of the family, nevertheless intervenes in public and social debates. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
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Contents
- Introduction: the rise of the child victim and the state of the novel
- Hideous progeny made clean: heredity and pedagogy in the new poor law writings of James Kay and in Oliver Twist
- In the bosom of the family: Dombey and Son and the wet-nursing debates of William Acton and C.H.F. Routh
- Tender tyranny: the 1839 Custody of Infants Act and custodial incarceration in Wuthering Heights and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
- Civilization and confession in midcentury representations of infanticide and in Adam Bede
- Conclusion: from pulpy infants to a nation of good animals
ISBN
- 0813919096
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