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The Victorian Family

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The Victorian Family book

Structures and Stresses

The Victorian Family

DOI link for The Victorian Family

The Victorian Family book

Structures and Stresses
Edited ByAnthony S. Wohl
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 1978
eBook Published 17 June 2016
Pub. location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315536050
Pages 224 pages
eBook ISBN 9781315535050
SubjectsHumanities
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Wohl, A. S. (Ed.). (1978). The Victorian Family. London: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315536050

First published in 1978, this multi-disciplinary study embraces a wide selection of topics ranging from family intimacy and authoritarianism to the family as a unit for launching social reforms. Subjects treated in the nine essays include the Victorian attitude to childbirth, the role of the nanny, the power of the upper-class paterfamilias, the pattern of family work and fertility, and incest among the Victorian working classes. The book is introduced by a critical survey of the state of family history and the need for new studies.

From the essays, the Victorian family emerges as both a refuge from society and a springboard into it, and as an important unit for the study of the repression and exploitation of women and children in Victorian society.

This book will be of interest to those studying Victorian history and society.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter 1|12 pages

Introduction

part |2 pages

Part One: Preparation and Possession

chapter 2|21 pages

'Temple and Sewer': Childbirth, Prudery and Victoria Regina

chapter 3|15 pages

'As the Twig is Bent': the Victorian Nanny

chapter 4|23 pages

The Paterfamilias of the Victorian Governing Classes

chapter 5|19 pages

Love and Possession in a Victorian Household: the Example of the Ruskins

chapter 6|16 pages

Family Secrets and Domestic Subversion: Rebellion in the Novels of the 1860s

part |2 pages

Part Two: Kinship and Community

chapter 7|29 pages

Victorian Reform as a Family Business: the Hill Family

chapter 8|32 pages

Family Disintegration and Creative Reintegration: the Case of Charlotte Brontë and Jane Eyre

chapter 9|17 pages

The Family and the Mill: Cotton Mill Work, Family Work Patterns and Fertility in Mid-Victorian Stockport

chapter 10|20 pages

Sex and the Single Room: Incest among the Victorian Working Classes

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