{"product_id":"professional-domesticity-in-the-victorian-novel-9780521021180","title":"Professional Domesticity in the Victorian Novel","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMonica 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A book for large collections serving upper-division undergraduates through faculty.\"    Choice\u003cbr\u003e\"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\u003cbr\u003e\"marvelous\"   Victorian Studies\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface; 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.","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51767561257303,"sku":"9780521021180","price":36.09,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780521021180.jpg?v=1758713812","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/professional-domesticity-in-the-victorian-novel-9780521021180","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}