Format:
Online-Ressource (263 p)
ISBN:
9780691006680
Series Statement:
Literature in History
Content:
Love of home life, the intimate moments a family peacefully enjoyed in seclusion, had long been considered a hallmark of English character even before the Victorian era. But the Victorians attached unprecedented importance to domesticity, romanticizing the family in every medium from novels to government reports, to the point where actual families felt anxious and the public developed a fierce appetite for scandal. Here Karen Chase and Michael Levenson explore how intimacy became a spectacle and how this paradox energized Victorian culture between 1835 and 1865. They tell a story of a society
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Description based upon print version of record
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; INTRODUCTION: The Trouble with Families; PART ONE: The Political Theater of Domesticity; PART TWO: Beneath the Banner of Home; PART THREE: Was That an Angel in the House?; PART FOUR: The Architecture of Comfort and Ruin; PART FIVE: The Sensations of Respectability; EPILOGUE: Between Manual and Spectacle; Notes; Index;
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Introduction: the trouble with familiesThe trials of Caroline Norton: poetry, publicity, and the prime minister -- The young queen and the parliamentary bedchamber: "I never saw a man so frightened" -- Sarah Stickney ellis: the ardent woman and the abject wife -- Tom's pinch: the sexual serpent beside the Dickensian fireside -- Love after death: the deceased wife's sister bill -- The transvestite, the bloomer, and the nightingale -- On the parapets of privacy: walls of wealth and dispossession -- Robert Kerr: The Gentleman's House and the one-room solution -- The empire of divorce: single women, the bill of 1857, and revolt in India -- Bigamy and modernity: the case of Mary Elizabeth Braddon -- Epilogue: between manual and spectacle.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781400831128
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780691006680
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe The Spectacle of Intimacy : A Public Life for the Victorian Family
Language:
English
Keywords:
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