Keywords:
Women and literature--Great Britain--History--19th century
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Electronic books
Description / Table of Contents:
How successful is Dickens in his portrayal of women? Dickens has been represented (along with William Blake and D.H. Lawrence) as one who championed the life of the emotions often associated with the "feminine." Yet some of his most important heroines are totally submissive and docile. Dickens, of course, had to accept the conventions of his time. It is obvious, argues Holbrook, that Dickens idealized the father-daughter relationship, and indeed, any such relationship that was unsexual, like that of Tom Pinch and his sister-but why? Why, for example, is the image of woman so often as
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
Online-Ressource (210 p.)
ISBN:
9780814734834
URL:
http://gbv.eblib.com/patron/FullRecord.aspx?p=865616
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=865616
DDC:
823.8
Language:
English
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Introduction; CHAPTER ONE Bleak House: The Dead Baby and the Psychic Inheritance; CHAPTER TWO Religion, Sin, and Shame; CHAPTER THREE Little Dorrit; Little Doormat; CHAPTER FOUR At the Heart of the Marshalsea; CHAPTER FIVE Great Expectations: A Radical Ambiguity about What One May Expect; CHAPTER SIX Finding One Another's Reality: Lizzie Hexam and Her Love Story in Our Mutual Friend; CHAPTER SEVEN Dickens's Own Relationships with Women; Bibliography; Index;
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