This book argues that brother-sister relationships--idealized by the Romantics and intensified in 19th-century English domestic culture--is a neglected key to understanding Victorian gender relations. Attracted by the apparent purity of the sibling bond, novelists and poets also acknowledged its innate ambivalence and instability, through conflicting patterns of sublimated devotion, revenge fantasy, and corrosive obsession. The final chapter shows how the brother-sister bond was permanently changed by the experience of the First World War.
This book argues that brother-sister relationships--idealized by the Romantics and intensified in 19th-century English domestic culture--is a neglecte...
This new collection from Routledge and Edition Synapse provides the documentary backdrop to this growing critical interest in anti-feminism. Based on the premise that to understand the social and intellectual context of the womena (TM)s movement and feminism, it is crucial that all contributions to the debate be explored, and not just those of the a ~winning sidea (TM), the collection meets an urgent need to restore to the historical record a sense of how feminism was a deeply marginalized position, and to remember that anti-feminism in many cases better represents public opinion...
This new collection from Routledge and Edition Synapse provides the documentary backdrop to this growing critical interest in anti-feminism. Based ...
The Fatherless Journey Devotional Book is a must have for every fatherless young man. It is a journey over your individual fatherless mountain. This life guide will help strengthen you to continue on with life despite your circumstances. Being fatherless, you are faced with life obstacles that many fathered individuals do not understand. In addition, to the obstacles, there are several statistics stacked against you, and this devotional is designed to guide you away from being another one of the statistics. Each day of this journey is filled with practical, yet Scriptural guidance that will...
The Fatherless Journey Devotional Book is a must have for every fatherless young man. It is a journey over your individual fatherless mountain. This l...
One of the foremost writers of her time, Harriet Martineau established her reputation by writing a hugely successful series of fictional tales on political economy whose wide readership included the young Queen Victoria. She went on to write fiction and nonfiction; books, articles and pamphlets; popular travel books and more insightful analyses. Martineau wrote in the middle decades of the nineteenth century, at a time when new disciplines and areas of knowledge were being established. Bringing together scholars of literature, history, economics and sociology, this volume demonstrates the...
One of the foremost writers of her time, Harriet Martineau established her reputation by writing a hugely successful series of fictional tales on poli...
