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The Brother-Sister Culture in Nineteenth-Century Literature: From Austen to Woolf
The BrotherSister Culture in NineteenthCentury Literature From Austen to Woolf
Author: Valerie Sanders
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 conflict...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780333749302
ISBN-10: 0333749308
Publication Date: 3/20/2002
Pages: 240
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Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Book Type: Hardcover
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