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by Claudia Nelson

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The Victorians were passionate about family. While Queen Victoria's supporters argued that her intense commitment to her private life made her the more fit to mother her people, her critics charged that it distracted her from her public responsibilities. Here, Nelson focuses particularly on the conflicting and powerful images of family life that Victorians produced in their fiction and nonfiction--that is, on how the Victorians themselves conceived of family, which continues both to influence and to help explain visions of family today.

Drawing upon a wide variety of 19th-century fiction and nonfiction, Nelson examines the English Victorian family both as it was imagined and as it was experienced. For many Victorians, family was exalted to the status of secular religion, endowed with the power of fighting the contamination of unchecked commercialism or sexuality and holding out the promise of reforming humankind. Although in practice this ideal might have proven unattainable, the many detailed 19th-century descriptions of the outlook and behavior appropriate to fathers and mothers, sons and daughters, and other family members illustrate the extent of the pressure felt by members of this society to try to live up to the expectations of their culture. Defining family to include the extended family, the foster or adoptive family, and the stepfamily, Nelson considers different roles within the Victorian household in order to gauge the ambivalence and the social anxieties surrounding them--many of which continue to influence our notions of family today.

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  • Title Family Ties in Victorian England
  • Author Claudia Nelson
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition 1st Edition
  • Pages 216
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Praeger
  • Publication date 2007-02-28
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780275986971 / 0275986977
  • Weight 1.08 lbs (0.49 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.5 x 6.51 x 0.94 in (24.13 x 16.54 x 2.39 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 19th Century
    • Cultural Region: British
    • Topical: Family
  • Category History - General History
  • Library of Congress subjects Family - England - History - 19th century, Families in literature
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2006038660
  • Dewey Decimal Code 306.870

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  • Reference and Research Bk News, 05/01/2007, Page 143

About the author

Claudia Nelson is Professor of English and director of Women's Studies at Texas A&M University. In addition to coediting three anthologies of essays, she is the author of Boys Will Be Girls: The Feminine Ethic and British Children's Fiction, 1857-1917, Invisible Men: Fatherhood in Victorian Periodicals, 1850-1910 , and Little Strangers: Portrayals of Adoption in America, 1850-1929, which won the Children's Literature Association award for the best scholarly book of 2003 in the field of children's studies.
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