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The Tragi-Comedy of Victorian Fatherhood (Hardcover)
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The Tragi-Comedy of Victorian Fatherhood (Hardcover)
Series: Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
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Examining Victorian middle-class fatherhood from the fathers' own
perspective, Valerie Sanders dismantles the persistent stereotype
of the nineteenth-century paterfamilias by focusing on the intimate
family lives of influential public men. Beginning with Prince
Albert as a high-profile patriarchal role-model, and comparing the
parallel case histories of prominent Victorians such as Dickens,
Darwin, Huxley and Gladstone, the book explores the strains on men
in public life as they managed their private relationship with
their children and found a language for the expression of their
pleasure, grief and anxiety as fathers. In a context of cultural
uncertainty about the legal rights and moral responsibilities of
fatherhood, the study draws on a wealth of unpublished journals and
letters to show how conscientious Victorian fathers in effect
invented a meaningful domestic role for themselves which has been
little understood.
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