The daughter in Dickens' fiction is considered in this study not as an emblem of tranquil domesticity and the hearth-fire, but as a bearer of cultural values--and as a potentially disruptive force. As the good daughters in his novels (Little Nell, Agnes Wickfield, Esther Summerson, Amy Dorrit) must leave the father's house and enter the wider world, so they transform and rewrite the stories they are empowered to tell. The daughter's secret inheritance, her "portion," is to give Dickens a way of reading and writing his own culture differently.
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"This is a significant and thought-provoking book." Dickens Quarterly
"Hilary Schor's Dickens and the Daughter of the House reveals quite another side of Dickens the pretender, the man who writes and thinks like a woman, yet who often takes little delight in that masquerade, indeed who performs it solemnly and even with a certain sadness." Review
"Hilary Schor's Dickens and the Daughter of the House reveals quite another side of Dickens the pretender, the man who writes and thinks like a woman, yet who often takes little delight in that masquerade, indeed who performs it solemnly and even with a certain sadness." Review
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The daughter in Dickens' fiction is considered in this study not as an emblem of tranquil domesticity and the hearth-fire, but as a bearer of cultural values--and as a potentially disruptive force. As the good daughters in his novels (Little Nell, Agnes Wickfield, Esther Summerson, Amy Dorrit) must leave the father's house and enter the wider world so they transform and rewrite the stories they are empowered to tell. The daughter's secret inheritance, her 'portion', gives Dickens a way of reading and writing his own culture differently.
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Charles Dicken's early novels are a mess. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
separate female property, adultery plot, inheritance plot, undisciplined heart, beautiful mama, bleak house, subsequent page references, property plot, marriage plot, base coin, female inheritance Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Miss Havisham, Miss Wade, Lady Dedlock, Little Dorrit, Amy Dorrit, John Harmon, Oliver Twist, Madame Defarge, John Jarndyce, Tale of Two Cities, The Old Curiosity Shop, David Copperfield, Esther Summerson, Great Expectations, Florence Dombey, Hard Times, Nicholas Nickleby, Arthur Clennam, Lucie Manette, Rose Maylie, Chesney Wold, Louisa Bounderby, Miss Flite, Pleasant Riderhood, Satis House New!
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Charles Dicken's early novels are a mess. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
separate female property, adultery plot, inheritance plot, undisciplined heart, beautiful mama, bleak house, subsequent page references, property plot, marriage plot, base coin, female inheritance Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Miss Havisham, Miss Wade, Lady Dedlock, Little Dorrit, Amy Dorrit, John Harmon, Oliver Twist, Madame Defarge, John Jarndyce, Tale of Two Cities, The Old Curiosity Shop, David Copperfield, Esther Summerson, Great Expectations, Florence Dombey, Hard Times, Nicholas Nickleby, Arthur Clennam, Lucie Manette, Rose Maylie, Chesney Wold, Louisa Bounderby, Miss Flite, Pleasant Riderhood, Satis House New!
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- Bleak House (Macmillan Readers) by Dickens on 18 pages
- Oliver Twist (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens on 18 pages
- David Copperfield (Modern Library Classics) by Charles Dickens on 17 pages
- The Old Curiosity Shop (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens on 15 pages
- Our Mutual Friend (Macmillan Readers) by M Tarner on 12 pages
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- The Cambridge Companion to Charles Dickens (Cambridge Companions to Literature) by John O. Jordan on 4 pages
- Between Women: Friendship, Desire, and Marriage in Victorian England by Sharon Marcus in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Fiction, Famine, and the Rise of Economics in Victorian Britain and Ireland (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture) by Gordon Bigelow in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Literature and Medicine in Nineteenth-Century Britain: From Mary Shelley to George Eliot (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture) by Janis McLarren Caldwell in Back Matter
- Nineteenth-Century Narratives of Contagion: 'Our Feverish Contact' (Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature) by Allan Conrad Christensen in Back Matter
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