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Dickens and the Daughter of the House (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture)
Dickens and the Daughter of the House - Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
Author: Hilary M. Schor
The daughter in Dickens' fiction is considered in this study not as an emblem of tranquil domesticity and the hearth-fire, but as a bearer of cultural values--and as a potentially disruptive force. As the good daughters in his novels (Little Nell, Agnes Wickfield, Esther Summerson, Amy Dorrit) must leave the father's house and enter the wider wo...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780521042635
ISBN-10: 0521042631
Publication Date: 9/24/2007
Pages: 248
Edition: 1
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Book Type: Paperback
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