The Professional Ideal in the Victorian Novel
Language: en
Pages: 238
Authors: S. Colon
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-05-14 - Publisher: Springer

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This book makes the claim that Victorian novels do not simply reflect professional ideology; they also scrutinize its dilemmas, contradictions, and limitations.
Sensation and Professionalism in the Victorian Novel
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Mariaconcetta Costantini
Categories: Business in literature
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015 - Publisher: Victorian and Edwardian Studies

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This book explores the extent to which four sensation novelists contributed to the Victorian redefinition of professionalism. Through an analysis of works autho
From Spinster to Career Woman
Language: en
Pages:
Authors: Arlene Young
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-05-30 - Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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The late Victorian period brought a radical change in cultural attitudes toward middle-class women and work. Anxiety over the growing disproportion between wome
The Oxford Handbook of the Victorian Novel
Language: en
Pages: 2484
Authors: Lisa Rodensky
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-07-11 - Publisher: OUP Oxford

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Much has been written about the Victorian novel, and for good reason. The cultural power it exerted (and, to some extent, still exerts) is beyond question. The
Professional Domesticity in the Victorian Novel
Language: en
Pages: 234
Authors: Monica F. Cohen
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998-02-05 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Much attention has recently been given by scholars to the widening of the gender gap in the nineteenth century and the concept of separate spheres. Testing such