The Tragi-Comedy of Victorian Fatherhood

ISBN-13: 9780521884785 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 246 str.

Valerie Sanders

Opis

A new study of Victorian middle-class fatherhood using the private diaries and letters of influential public men.

Recenzje

' … [an] excellent book …' The Brown Book: Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford

Spis treści

Introduction: looking for the Victorian father; 1. The failure of fatherhood at mid-century: four case histories; 2. Theatrical fatherhood: Dickens and Macready; 3. 'How?' and 'Why?': Kingsley as educating father; 4. Matthew and Son (and Father): the Arnolds; 5. 'A fine degree of paternal fervour': scientifc fathering; 6. Death comes for the Archbishop (and Prime Minister); Conclusion.