The Brother-Sister Culture in Nineteenth-Century Literature - From Austen to Woolf (Hardcover, New)

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.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	December 2001
First published:	2002
Authors:	V. Sanders
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 12mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	223
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-333-74930-2
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 19th century Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900
LSN:	0-333-74930-8
Barcode:	9780333749302

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