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The fictional representation of the family has long been regarded
as a Dickensian speciality. But while nineteenth-century reviewers
praised Dickens as the pre-eminent novelist of the family, any close
examination of his novels reveals a remarkable disjunction between
his image as the quintessential celebrant of the hearth, and his
interest in fractured families. Catherine Waters offers an explanation
of this discrepancy through an examination of Dickens's representa-
tion of the family in relation to nineteenth-century constructions of
class and gender. Drawing upon feminist and new historicist method-
ologies, and focussing upon the normalising function of middle-class
domestic ideology, Waters concludes that Dickens's novels record a
shift in notions of the family away from an earlier stress upon the
importance of lineage and blood towards a new ideal of domesticity
assumed to be the natural form of the family.
DICKENS AND THE POLITICS
OF THE FAMILY
For Mary and Ron
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