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The subject and role of the father in the Victorian novel is certainly the central one for the fiction of the period, and the novels discussed are well-chosen to reveal the changing portrayal of the family and the figure of the father in the light of the political and social concerns of the period. The selection of novels is various and wide-ranging, encompassing well-known works like Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield , Austen's Mansfield Park , Dicken's Dombey and Son , as well lesser known works like Thackeray's The Newcomes , Yonge's The Daisy Chain , and Stevenson's The Master of Ballantrae. What is innovative about Kilroy's approach to the nineteenth-century English novel is his effort to refocus the reader's attention on the father and issues of patriarchy in these novels at a time in which recent scholarship of the Victorian period has been dominated by feminist readings that downplay or distort the importance of patriarchal characters.' - George H. Gilpin, Professor of English and McFarlin Library Scholar-in-Residence, The University of Tulsa
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Book Title: The Nineteenth-Century English Novel
Book Subtitle: Family Ideology and Narrative Form
Authors: James F Kilroy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230604353
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2007
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-7646-8Published: 08 June 2007
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-53716-7Published: 08 June 2007
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-60435-3Published: 02 April 2007
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 222
Topics: British and Irish Literature, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Fiction, Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging