{"product_id":"professional-domesticity-in-the-victorian-novel-women-work-and-home-hardback-9780521591416","title":"Professional Domesticity in the Victorian Novel; Women, Work and Home (Hardback) 9780521591416","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eProfessional Domesticity in the Victorian Novel\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eWomen, Work and Home\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eRevisionary study of how domestic work gained social credibility through the language of professionalism.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMonica Feinberg Cohen (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521591416, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 5 February 1998\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e232 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.6 x 16 x 1.9 cm, 0.44 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"marvelous\"   Victorian Studies\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eMuch 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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e 1. Persuading the navy home: Austen and professional domesticism\u003cbr\u003e 2. Homesick: the domestic interiors of Villette\u003cbr\u003e 3. Dickens I: Great Expectations and vocational domesticity\u003cbr\u003e 4. Dickens II: Little Dorrit in a home and the institutionalisation of form\u003cbr\u003e 5. Professing renunciation: domesticity in Felix Holt\u003cbr\u003e 6. A prejudice for milk: professionalism, nationalism and domesticism in Daniel Deronda\u003cbr\u003e Afterword.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literary studies: fiction, novelists \u0026amp; prose writers [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: fiction, novelists \u0026amp; prose writers\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20fiction,%20novelists%20\u0026amp;%20prose%20writers%20%5BDSK%5D%22\"\u003eDSK\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46004795212056,"sku":"9780521591416","price":101.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521591416i_1a40a055-53a1-473e-be7f-e7adc13ddc2c.jpg?v=1691370155","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/professional-domesticity-in-the-victorian-novel-women-work-and-home-hardback-9780521591416","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}