The Victorian Family by Anthony S Wohl
First published in 1978, this multi-disciplinary study embraces a wide selection of topics ranging from family intimacy and authoritarianism to the family as a unit for launching social reforms. Subjects treated in the nine essays include the Victorian attitude to childbirth, the role of the nanny, the power of the upper-class paterfamilias, the pattern of family work and fertility, and incest among the Victorian working classes. The book is introduced by a critical survey of the state of family history and the need for new studies.
From the essays, the Victorian family emerges as both a refuge from society and a springboard into it, and as an important unit for the study of the repression and exploitation of women and children in Victorian society.
This book will be of interest to those studying Victorian history and society.
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Working-class Stories of the 1890s
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The Campaign for Prohibition in Victorian England
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Victorian Magic
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Chartist Fiction
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Shopkeepers and Master Artisans in Ninteenth-Century Europe
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Victorian Theatrical Burlesques
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The Petite Bourgeoisie in Europe 1780-1914
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Nonconformity in the Nineteenth Century
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Conflict and Compromise
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Class and Religion in the Late Victorian City
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Signs for the Times
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The Working Class in England 1875-1914
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Independent Spirits
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Three Victorian Travellers
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The Victorian Working Class
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Henry Irving
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The Victorian Church in Decline
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Splendidly Victorian
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A Victorian Childhood
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Hewett Cottrell Watson
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Victorian Divorce
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The Workhouse System 1834-1929
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Victorian Studies
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Class and Ideology in the Nineteenth Century
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The Irish in the Victorian City
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South Wales and the Rising of 1839
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Leisure in the Industrial Revolution
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Emigrant Gentlewomen
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The Victorian Clergy
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Instrumental Teaching in Nineteenth-Century Britain
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An Artisan Elite in Victorian Society
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Lord and Peasant in Nineteenth Century Britain
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The Literature of Struggle
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Conquest of Mind
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The Lower Middle Class in Britain 1870-1914
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Reform and Intellectual Debate in Victorian England
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Land and People in Nineteenth-Century Wales
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Class and Conflict in Nineteenth-Century England
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Popular Culture and Custom in Nineteenth-Century England
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The Radical Soldier's Tale
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Paternalism in Early Victorian England
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Victorian Oxford
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781138665576 |
| ISBN 10 | 1138665576 |
| Title | The Victorian Family |
| Author | Anthony Wohl |
| Series | Routledge Library Editions: The Victorian World |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Routledge |
| Year published | 2016-06-08 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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