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Author: Melissa Shields Jenkins
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint: Routledge
Edition: New edition
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 1.40cm
, Length: 23.40cm
Weight: 0.521kg
ISBN: 9781472411617
ISBN 10: 1472411617
Pages: 216
Publication Date: 03 July 2014
Audience:
College/higher education
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General/trade
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Tertiary & Higher Education
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General
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
'This is a distinctly new kind of book on fatherhood: an innovative study of the troubled relations between real and fictional fathers and sons, and the extra-literary texts that shaped them. Juxtaposing J.S. Mill and Max Weber, Melissa Jenkins's lively and provocative analysis tracks shifting notions of patriarchal authority from Gaskell to Gosse through engagement with conduct books and family prayers, palimpsests and science writing, to create an idea of the father perpetually under reconstruction.' Valerie Sanders, University of Hull, UK
'This is a distinctly new kind of book on fatherhood: an innovative study of the troubled relations between real and fictional fathers and sons, and the extra-literary texts that shaped them. Juxtaposing J.S. Mill and Max Weber, Melissa Jenkins's lively and provocative analysis tracks shifting notions of patriarchal authority from Gaskell to Gosse through engagement with conduct books and family prayers, palimpsests and science writing, to create an idea of the father perpetually under reconstruction.' Valerie Sanders, University of Hull, UK '... a fresh interdisciplinary study that will interest scholars in both masculinity studies and genre studies.' Review of English Studies '[An] insightful book ... Scholars will certainly benefit from the book's impressive research and perceptive observations. It offers insights ... which emerge readily from the many wonderfully suggestive correspondences and metaphoric echoes Jenkins discovers within and between her texts.' Journal of British Studies
"'This is a distinctly new kind of book on fatherhood: an innovative study of the troubled relations between real and fictional fathers and sons, and the extra-literary texts that shaped them. Juxtaposing J.S. Mill and Max Weber, Melissa Jenkins's lively and provocative analysis tracks shifting notions of patriarchal authority from Gaskell to Gosse through engagement with conduct books and family prayers, palimpsests and science writing, to create an ""idea of the father"" perpetually under reconstruction.' Valerie Sanders, University of Hull, UK '... a fresh interdisciplinary study that will interest scholars in both masculinity studies and genre studies.' Review of English Studies '[An] insightful book ... Scholars will certainly benefit from the book's impressive research and perceptive observations. It offers insights ... which emerge readily from the many wonderfully suggestive correspondences and metaphoric echoes Jenkins discovers within and between her texts.' Journal of British Studies"
Author Information
Melissa Shields Jenkins is Assistant Professor of English at Wake Forest University, USA.
