Author: Ford K. BrownPublisher: CUP Archive
ISBN:
Category : Evangelicalism
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
Fathers of the Victorians
Author: Ford K. BrownPublisher: CUP Archive
ISBN:
Category : Evangelicalism
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
Fathers of the Victorians ...
Author: Ford Keeler BrownA Man's Place
Author: John ToshPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300143680
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
divDomesticity is generally treated as an aspect of women’s history. In this fascinating study of the nineteenth-century middle class, John Tosh shows how profoundly men’s lives were conditioned by the Victorian ideal and how they negotiated its many contradictions. Tosh begins by looking at the experience of boyhood, married life, sex, and fatherhood in the early decades of the nineteenth century—illustrated by case studies representing a variety of backgrounds—and then contrasts this with the lives of the late Victorian generation. He finds that the first group of men placed a new value on the home as a reaction to the disorienting experience of urbanization and as a response to the teachings of Evangelical Christianity. Domesticity still proved problematic in practice, however, because most men were likely to be absent from home for most of the day, and the role of father began to acquire its modern indeterminacy. By the 1870s, men were becoming less enchanted with the pleasures of home. Once the rights of wives were extended by law and society, marriage seemed less attractive, and the bachelor world of clubland flourished as never before. The Victorians declared that to be fully human and fully masculine, men must be active participants in domestic life. In exposing the contradictions in this ideal, they defined the climate for gender politics in the next century. /DIV
Fathers of the Victorians ... Reprinted from The Virginia Quarterly Review, etc
Author: Ford Keeler BROWNThe Tragi-Comedy of Victorian Fatherhood
Author: Valerie SandersPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781107412651
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Examining Victorian middle-class fatherhood from the fathers' own perspective, Valerie Sanders dismantles the persistent stereotype of the nineteenth-century paterfamilias by focusing on the intimate family lives of influential public men. Beginning with Prince Albert as a high-profile patriarchal role-model, and comparing the parallel case histories of prominent Victorians such as Dickens, Darwin, Huxley and Gladstone, the book explores the strains on men in public life as they managed their private relationship with their children and found a language for the expression of their pleasure, grief and anxiety as fathers. In a context of cultural uncertainty about the legal rights and moral responsibilities of fatherhood, the study draws on a wealth of unpublished journals and letters to show how conscientious Victorian fathers in effect invented a meaningful domestic role for themselves which has been little understood.
Fathers in Victorian Fiction
Author: Natalie McKnightPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443833118
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
This book examines the changing roles of fathers in the nineteenth century as seen in the lives and fiction of Victorian authors. Fatherhood underwent unprecedented change during this period. The Industrial Revolution moved work out of the home for many men, diminishing contact between fathers and their children. Yet fatherhood continued to be seen as the ultimate expression of masculinity, and being involved with the lives of one’s children was essential to being a good father. Conflicting and frustrating expectations of fathers and the growing disillusionment with other paternal authorities such as church and state yielded memorable portrayals of fathers from the best novelists of the age. The essays in this volume explore how Victorian authors (the Brontës, Dickens, Gaskell, Trollope, Eliot, Hardy, and Elizabeth Sewall and Mary Augusta Ward) responded to these tensions in their lives and in their fiction. The stern Victorian father cliché persisted, but it was countered by imaginative, involved, albeit faulty fathers and surrogate fathers. This volume poses fathering questions that are still relevant today: What does it mean to be a good father? And, with distrust in patriarchal authorities continuing to increase, are there any sources of authority left that one can trust?
Our Fathers (1870-1900)
Author: Alan BottPublisher: New York : B. Blom
ISBN:
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Our Fathers (1870-1900)
Author: Alan BottOur Fathers
Author: Alan BottPublisher: Ayer Publishing
ISBN: 9780405082924
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Our Fathers (1870-1900)
Author: Alan BottPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description