TY - BOOK AU - Jenkins, Melissa Shields PY - 2014 DA - 2014// TI - Fatherhood, authority, and British reading culture, 1831-1907 PB - Ashgate CY - Farnham [u.a.] KW - Fathers and daughters in literature KW - Fathers and sons in literature KW - Fatherhood in literature KW - Authority in literature KW - English fiction KW - History and criticism KW - Englisch KW - Literatur KW - Vaterschaft KW - Vater KW - Autorität KW - England KW - Lesekultur KW - Geschichte 1831-1907 AB - During a period when the idea of fatherhood was in flux and individual fathers sought to regain a cohesive collective identity, debates related to a father's authority were negotiated and resolved through competing documents. Melissa Shields Jenkins analyzes the evolution of patriarchal authority in nineteenth-century culture, drawing from extra-literary and non-narrative source material as well as from novels. Arguing that Victorian novelists reinvent patriarchy by recourse to conduct books, biography, religious manuals, political speeches, and professional writing in the fields of history and science, Jenkins offers interdisciplinary case studies of Elizabeth Gaskell, George Meredith, William Makepeace Thackeray, George Eliot, Samuel Butler, and Thomas Hardy. Jenkins's book contributes to our understanding of the part played by fathers in the Victorian cultural imagination, and sheds new light on the structures underlying the Victorian novel. SN - 9781472411617 LA - English N1 - by Melissa Shields Jenkins ID - 773325441 ER -