Suffering mothers in mid-Victorian novels
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Publication
1997 - St. Martin's Press, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
40,500 words, Guess
Page Count
162 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL995817M
- ISBN-100312122950
- OCLC Control Number35249488
- OCLC Control Numbersufferingmothers0000mckn
- Library of Congress Control Number96034454
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- Goodreads4616749
Classifications
- DDC823/.8093520431
- LCCPR878.M69 M35 1996
Description
During the Victorian Era, women who became mothers faced unprecedented, unrealistic, and contradictory expectations from mainstream society. These expectations were expressed through a wide range of media including maternal guidebooks, popular periodicals, and Queen Victoria's maternal image. In Suffering Mothers in Mid-Victorian Novels, Natalie McKnight analyzes the influence of such cultural pressures on the fictional portrayals of mothers in mid-Victorian novels. Using a new historical and psychoanalytic approach, McKnight examines the climate created by a society that idolized mothers in theory but in reality positioned them to fail. The novels of Dickens, Charlotte Bronte, Thackeray, and George Eliot are studied for their inclusion of mother characters who vary from the ambivalent to the monstrous, the angelic to the absent. In her thorough exploration of these novels, McKnight reveals the influences and the natures of characters who function more centrally in mid-Victorian fiction than has often been supposed.
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