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Author:   Vanessa D. Dickerson
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781138642867

ISBN 10:   113864286
Pages:   402
Publication Date:   28 November 2017
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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"Acknowledgements; Introduction: Housekeeping and Housekept Angels Vanessa D. Dickerson; Part One: In My Father’s House; or, In Search of a Home of Her Own; 1. Housekeeping and Hegemony in Dickens’s ‘Bleak House’ Martin A. Danahay 2. Stitching Repentance, Sewing Rebellion: Seamstresses and Fallen Women in Elizabeth Gaskell’s Fiction Deborah Denenholz Morse 3. God’s House, Women’s Place Laura Fasick 4. Women Artists at Home Julia M. Gergits 5. Female Acquisition in ‘The Spoils of Poynton’ Sandra Kumamoto Stanley 6. Playing House: Frances Hodgson Burnett’s Victorian Fairy Tale Eileen Connell; Part Two: A Woman’s Work Is Never Done: Women’s Work and Domestic Space; 7. The Chatelaine: Women of the Victorian Landed Classes and the Country House Jessica Gerard 8. Decorating Domestic Space: Middle-Class Women and Victorian Interiors Thad Logan 9. ""Ladies-Loaf Givers"": Food, Women, and Society in the Novels of Charlotte Brontë and George Eliot Francis L. Fennell, Monica A. Fennell 10. Housework, Mill Work, Women’s Work: The Functions of Cloth in Charlotte Brontë’s ‘Shirley’ Maura Ives 11. Loss of the Domestic Idyll: Slop Workers in Victorian Fiction Lynn M. Alexander 12. Domestic Ironies: Housekeeping as Mankeeping in Conrad’s ‘The Secret Agent’ Brian W. Shaffer; Select Bibliography; Contributors; Index"

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