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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      10 November 2009
      05 February 1998
      ISBN:
      9780511585265
      9780521591416
      9780521021180
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511585265
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.44kg, 232 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.359kg, 232 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, English Literature 1830-1900
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture (14)
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    Subjects:
    Literature, English Literature 1830-1900
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture (14)
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    Much attention has recently been given by scholars to the widening of the gender gap in the nineteenth century and the concept of separate spheres. Testing such constructions, and questioning the stereotypes associated with Victorian domesticity, Monica F. Cohen offers new readings of narratives by Austen, Charlotte Brontë, Dickens, Eliot, Eden, Gaskell, Oliphant and Reade to show how domestic work, the most feminine of all activities, gained much of its social credibility by positioning itself in relation to the emergent professions. By exploring how novels cast the Victorian conception of female morality into the vocabulary of nineteenth-century professionalism, Cohen traces the ways in which women sought identity and privilege within a professionalised culture, and revises our understanding of Victorian domestic ideology.

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    "In The Victorian Governess, Kathryn Hughes presents a comprehensive examination of the state of the profession at mid-century for those employed spinsters." Laurie Kaplan, JASNA News

    "marvelous" Victorian Studies

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