This lively collection penetrates the stereotype of the Victorian 'paterfamilias' to reveal intimate and involved, authoritarian and austere fathers. Examining how paternal power was embedded in social institutions, it argues that fatherhood invoked more anxiety and debate than hitherto acknowledged.
This text provides a detailed overview of Angela Carter, one of the most gifted, subversive and stylish of British writers to emerge in the 1960s. It examines her fascination with female sexuality from her earliest writings to her works of the 1990s.
Margaret Oliphant (1828-97) had a prolific literary career that spanned almost fifty years
Margaret Oliphant (1828-97) had a prolific literary career that spanned almost fifty years
Margaret Oliphant (1828-97) had a prolific literary career that spanned almost fifty years
Margaret Oliphant (1828-97) had a prolific literary career that spanned almost fifty years
An in-depth look at developments within Victorian auto/biography, asking what we can learn about the conditions and limits of male literary authority.
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