THE BROTHER-SISTER CULTURE IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE by Professor Valerie R. Sanders ( 9780333749302 )

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THE BROTHER-SISTER CULTURE IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE
FROM AUSTEN TO WOOLF

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0333749308

ISBN 13:

9780333749302

Publisher:

PALGRAVE MACMILLAN

Pub. date:

17 December, 2001

Pages:

233

Description:

This text argues that brother sister relationships, idealized by the Romantics, intensified in 19th-century English domestic culture, and is a neglected key to understanding Victorian gender relations. The final chapter shows how the brother sister bond was changed by the the First World War.

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This book argues that brother-sister relationships, idealized by the Romantics, intensified in nineteenth-century English domestic culture, and is a neglected key to understanding Victorian gender relations. Attracted by the apparent purity of the sibling bond, novelists and poets also acknowledged its innate ambivalence and instability, through conflicting patterns of sublimated devotion, revenge fantasy, and corrosive obsession. The final chapter shows how the brother-sister bond was permanently changed by the experience of the First World War.

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