The brother-sister culture in nineteenth-century literature : from Austen to Woolf / Valerie Sanders.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sanders, Valerie.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.

English fiction.

Siblings in literature.

Brothers and sisters in literature.

English fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

Domestic fiction, English--History and criticism.

Domestic fiction, English.

Siblings--Great Britain--History.

Siblings.

Brothers and sisters.

History.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

ix, 223 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave, 2002.

Summary:

This book argues that brother-sister relationships -- idealized by the Romantics and intensified in 19th-century English domestic culture -- is a neglected key to understanding Victorian gender relations. Attracted by the apparent purity of the sibling bond, novelists and poets also acknowledged its innate ambivalence and instability, through conflicting patterns of sublimated devotion, revenge fantasy, and corrosive obsession. The final chapter shows how the brother-sister bond was permanently changed by the experience of the First World War.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-217) and index.

ISBN:

0333749308

OCLC:

47081291