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Monica F. Cohen offers new readings of fictional narratives, to show how domestic work gained social credibility through the vocabulary of nineteenth-century professionalism. Her study questions the stereotypes of Victorian domesticity, and revises our understanding of nineteenth-century domestic ideology.

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"A book for large collections serving upper-division undergraduates through faculty." Choice
"In The Victorian Governess, Kathryn Hughes presents a comprehensive examination of the state of the profession at mid-century for those employed spinsters." Laurie Kaplan, JASNA News
"marvelous" Victorian Studies

Table of Contents
Preface; 1. Persuading the navy home: Austen and professional domesticism; 2. Homesick: the domestic interiors of Villette; 3. Dickens I: Great Expectations and vocational domesticity; 4. Dickens II: Little Dorrit in a home and the institutionalisation of form; 5. Professing renunciation: domesticity in Felix Holt; 6. A prejudice for milk: professionalism, nationalism and domesticism in Daniel Deronda; Afterword.

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      Publisher: Cambridge University Press
      Publication Date: 10/13/2005 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780521021180, 978-0521021180
      ISBN10: 0521021189
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      Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Monica F. Cohen offers new readings of fictional narratives, to show how domestic work gained social credibility through the vocabulary of nineteenth-century professionalism. Her study questions the stereotypes of Victorian domesticity, and revises our understanding of nineteenth-century domestic ideology.

      Trade Review
      "A book for large collections serving upper-division undergraduates through faculty." Choice
      "In The Victorian Governess, Kathryn Hughes presents a comprehensive examination of the state of the profession at mid-century for those employed spinsters." Laurie Kaplan, JASNA News
      "marvelous" Victorian Studies

      Table of Contents
      Preface; 1. Persuading the navy home: Austen and professional domesticism; 2. Homesick: the domestic interiors of Villette; 3. Dickens I: Great Expectations and vocational domesticity; 4. Dickens II: Little Dorrit in a home and the institutionalisation of form; 5. Professing renunciation: domesticity in Felix Holt; 6. A prejudice for milk: professionalism, nationalism and domesticism in Daniel Deronda; Afterword.

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