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Dissenting Women in Dickens' Novels - The Subversion of Domestic Ideology (Hardcover, New)
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Dissenting Women in Dickens' Novels - The Subversion of Domestic Ideology (Hardcover, New)
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Given their pedagogical nature, many Victorian novels are highly
politicized; their narratives are filtered through the value
schemes, social views, and conscious purposes of their authors.
Victorian women were largely expected to dedicate themselves to the
social and moral betterment of their families. Women were expected
to be soft, meek, quiet, modest, submissive, gentle, patient, and
spiritual; men were supposed to be aggressive, assertive,
resilient, disciplined, and competitive. These expectations were
repeatedly endorsed through the conduct books of the period, which
encouraged people to adhere to "proper" behavior. The Victorian era
also viewed fiction as a didactic tool and as a means to propagate
morality. Thus novels of the period typically present women as
subordinate to men and as angels of the home. Women who conform to
the social norms are usually rewarded in these fictitious worlds,
whereas women who violate society's standards are often penalized.
Certainly the novels of Charles Dickens fall into the larger
didactic trend of Victorian fiction, and like other works of the
period, his novels overtly support the conventional values of
Victorian society. Dickens typically uses descriptive detail to
register approval or disapproval of certain women, and these women
are rewarded or chastized through his plots. But on a less obvious
level, Dickens also challenges the prevailing Victorian attitude
toward women. A close look at his works shows that patriarchs do
not automatically deserve the respect they command from their
privileged social positions. Women--however virtuous--are unable to
produce moral or social change, and many women succeed outside the
constraints ofdomesticity. This book provides a penetrating
analysis of how Dickens' novels ultimately fail to promote the
conventional Victorian behavioral ideal for women and discusses how
his works subvert the domestic ideology of the nineteenth century.
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