Table of Contents: Professional domesticity in the Victorian novel :

Main Author:	Cohen, Monica F.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Series:	Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 14
Subjects:	Domestic fiction, English > History and criticism. English fiction > History and criticism. > 19th century Women and literature > History > 19th century. > Great Britain Literature and society > History > 19th century. > Great Britain Domestic relations in literature. Occupations in literature. Sex role in literature. Women in literature. Home in literature. Work in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. Domestic fiction, English. English fiction. Literature and society. Women and literature. Romans. Engels. Victoriaanse tijd. Huiselijkheid. Vrouwen. Great Britain.

Table of Contents:

Persuading the navy home: Austen and professional domesticism
Homesick: the domestic interiors of Villette
Dickens I: Great expectations and vocational domesticity
Dickens II: Little Dorrit in a home: institutionalization and form
Professing renunciation: domesticity in Felix Holt
A prejudice for milk: professionalism, nationalism and domesticism in Daniel Deronda.