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The Victorians elevated the home and heteronormative family life to
an almost secular religion. Yet alongside the middle-class domestic
ideal were other families, many of which existed in the literature
of the time. Queer Victorian Families: Curious Relations in
Literature is chiefly concerned with these atypical or "queer"
families. This collection serves as a corrective against limited
definitions of family and is a timely addition to Victorian
studies. Interdisciplinary in nature, the collection opens up new
possibilities for uncovering submerged, marginalized, and
alternative stories in Victorian literature. Broad in scope,
subjects range from Count Fosco and his animal "children" in Wilkie
Collins's The Woman in White, to male kinship within and across
Alfred Tennyson's In Memoriam and Herman Melville's Moby-Dick, and
the nexus between disability and loving relationships in the
fiction of Dinah Mulock Craik and Charlotte M. Yonge. Queer
Victorian Families is a wide-ranging and theoretically adventurous
expose of the curious relations in the literary family tree.
This work offers an original interpretation of the mothers of the
protagonists in Dickens's autobiographical novels. Taking Julia
Kristeva's psychoanalytic concept of abjection and Mary Douglas's
anthropological analysis of pollution as its conceptual framework,
the book argues that disgust was Dickens's primary emotional
response towards the mother who abandoned him to work in a blacking
warehouse, and suggests that we can trace similar signs of disgust
in the narrators of his subsequent fictional autobiographies: David
Copperfield, Bleak House, and Great Expectations. Displaying an
extensive grasp of the critical field, the book provides a close
reading of Dickens's autobiographical fragment and opens up the
possibility that his feelings towards his mother bore a significant
influence on his fiction. Further, the book provides a compelling
overview of the theories of disgust and closes with a provocative
discussion of Dickens's compulsive Sikes and Nancy public readings.
The Victorians elevated the home and heteronormative family life to
an almost secular religion. Yet alongside the middle-class domestic
ideal were other families, many of which existed in the literature
of the time. Queer Victorian Families: Curious Relations in
Literature is chiefly concerned with these atypical or "queer"
families. This collection serves as a corrective against limited
definitions of family and is a timely addition to Victorian
studies. Interdisciplinary in nature, the collection opens up new
possibilities for uncovering submerged, marginalized, and
alternative stories in Victorian literature. Broad in scope,
subjects range from Count Fosco and his animal "children" in Wilkie
Collins's The Woman in White, to male kinship within and across
Alfred Tennyson's In Memoriam and Herman Melville's Moby-Dick, and
the nexus between disability and loving relationships in the
fiction of Dinah Mulock Craik and Charlotte M. Yonge. Queer
Victorian Families is a wide-ranging and theoretically adventurous
expose of the curious relations in the literary family tree.
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