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Our daughters must be wives : marriageable young women in the novels of Dickens, Eliot, and Hardy
- Title
- Our daughters must be wives : marriageable young women in the novels of Dickens, Eliot, and Hardy / Britta Zangen.
- Author
- Zangen, Britta, 1947-
- Publication
- New York : P. Lang, ©2005.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Book/Text | Use in library | PR878.W6 Z25 2004 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- 391 pages; 22 cm.
- Series Statement
- Feministische Forschungen ; Bd. 2
- Uniform Title
- Feministische Forschungen ; Bd. 2.
- Subject
- Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 > Characters > Women
- Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928 > Characters > Women
- Eliot, George, 1819-1880 > Characters > Women
- Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
- Eliot, George, 1819-1880
- Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928
- 1800-1899
- English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism
- Women and literature > Great Britain > History > 19th century
- Married women in literature
- Single women in literature
- Young women in literature
- Sex role in literature
- Marriage in literature
- English fiction
- Women and literature
- Women in literature
- Great Britain
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [357]-379) and index.
- Contents
- Part I. The 1840s to the 1870s : socio-historical context -- The effects of the Industrial Revolution on Victorian men ; The costs of capitalism -- The effects of the Industrial Revolution on Victorian women ; Woman's sphere : the home ; The nature of woman ; The leisured lady ; Woman's destiny : marriage ; Spinsters -- Victorian ideology and marriageable girls ; Girls' education ; The girls' future : marriage ; Courtship and engagement -- Part II. The 1840s to the 1870s : fiction -- Charles Dickens and George Eliot -- Dickens: The Pickwick papers ; Oliver Twist ; Nicholas Nickleby ; The Old Curiosity Shop ; Barnaby Rudge ; Martin Chuzzlewit ; Dombey and son ; David Copperfield ; Bleak House ; Hard times ; Little Dorrit ; A tale of two cities ; Great expectations ; Our mutual friend ; The mystery of Edwin Drood -- Eliot: Scenes of clerical life ; Adam Bede ; The mill on the Floss ; Silas Marner ; Romola ; Felix Holt, the radical ; Middlemarch ; Daniel Deronda -- Part III. The 1870s to the 1890s : socio-historical context -- Women as agents of change ; Independence for unmarried women ; Independence for married women ; The legal position of women ; The new woman -- Attacks on men ; Counter-attacks by men -- The changing ideology and marriageable girls ; Education ; At home -- Part IV. The 1870s to the 1890s : fiction -- Thomas Hardy: Desperate remedies ; Under the greenwood tree ; A pair of blue eyes ; Far from the madding crowd ; The hand of Ethelberta ; The return of the native ; The trumpet-major ; A Laodicean ; Two on the tower ; The Mayor of Casterbridge ; The woodlanders ; Tess of the d'Urbervilles ; The [pursuit of the] well-beloved ; Jude the obscure.
- ISBN
- 3631529767
- 9783631529768
- 0820473421
- 9780820473420
- LCCN
- 2004063205
- OCLC
- ocm56955941
- 56955941
- SCSB-14164621
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library