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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Nelson, Claudia. Family ties in Victorian England. Westport, Conn. : Praeger Publishers, 2007 (OCoLC)654242089 |
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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Claudia Nelson |
| ISBN: | 0275986977 9780275986971 |
| OCLC Number: | 76820833 |
| Description: | xi, 196 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Wives and husbands -- Mothers and fathers -- Sons and daughters -- Brothers and sisters -- The extended family -- Stepfamilies and foster families. |
| Series Title: | Victorian life and times. |
| Responsibility: | Claudia Nelson. |
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<p>"In this well-written, well-researched sociological study of the Victorian family, Nelson links life and literature, showing literary attempts to inculcate virtue as defined by the culture and the individual author. Drawing in court cases and life stories of Victorians both well known and obscure, the author argues that Victorian literature offers a middle-class viewpoint that the working classes are morally inferior and shows the extent to which family, supposed to be the bedrock on which Victorian society was built, nonetheless appeared vulnerable. Employing the extended family, stepparenting, and adoption, Victorian writers could present poor parenting without attacking the assumption that all women are maternal. Not surprisingly, Nelson finds girls' and women's training and roles different from those of men and boys--boys raised to support families and given leisure and freedom, girls removed from school as young as seven (if they were needed to care for siblings) and expected to cater to the needs of brothers throughout life. This fascinating, timely, and eye-opening study adds to Nelson's outstanding "Invisible Men: Fatherhood in Victorian Periodicals, 1850-1910". Highly recommended. All readers; all levels." - <p>Choice Read more...
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