Suffer and Be Still (Routledge Revivals)
Title | Suffer and Be Still (Routledge Revivals) PDF eBook |
Author | Martha Vicinus |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 258 |
Release | 2013-10-08 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1135045275 |
First published in 1972, this book contains a collection of ten essays that document the feminine stereotypes that women fought against, and only partially erased, a hundred years ago. In an introductory essay, Martha Vicinus describes the perfect Victorian lady, showing that the ideal was a combination of sexual innocence, conspicuous consumption and worship of the family hearth. Indeed, this model in some form was the ideal of all classes as the perfect lady’s only functions were marriage and procreation. The text offers a valuable insight into Victorian culture and society.
Suffer and Be Still (Routledge Revivals)
Title | Suffer and Be Still (Routledge Revivals) PDF eBook |
Author | Martha Vicinus |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 235 |
Release | 2013-10-08 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1135045267 |
First published in 1972, this book contains a collection of ten essays that document the feminine stereotypes that women fought against, and only partially erased, a hundred years ago. In an introductory essay, Martha Vicinus describes the perfect Victorian lady, showing that the ideal was a combination of sexual innocence, conspicuous consumption and worship of the family hearth. Indeed, this model in some form was the ideal of all classes as the perfect lady’s only functions were marriage and procreation. The text offers a valuable insight into Victorian culture and society.
Suffer and be Still; Women in the Victorian Age
Title | Suffer and be Still; Women in the Victorian Age PDF eBook |
Author | Martha Vicinus |
Publisher | Bloomington : Indiana University Press |
Pages | 264 |
Release | 1972 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
The ten essays in this volume discuss the psychological, biological, sociological, and literary attitudes toward women in the Victorian period.
Suffer and be still. Women in the Victorian Age. Ed. [and introd.] by M. Vicinus
Title | Suffer and be still. Women in the Victorian Age. Ed. [and introd.] by M. Vicinus PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 239 |
Release | 1972 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Be Still and Be Happy
Title | Be Still and Be Happy PDF eBook |
Author | BroadStreet Publishing Group LLC |
Publisher | BroadStreet Publishing Group LLC |
Pages | 486 |
Release | 2021-04-06 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1424562376 |
God encourages us in his Word to give thanks in all things. That's not a mistake. When we choose to focus on things we are grateful for, our satisfaction with life increases and we become happier people. This 365 daily devotional will encourage you to focus on things that bring life and joy, reflect on Scripture that give peace and comfort, and evaluate each day in the light of truth. Take time to ponder the sweetness of life, be still with the Father... and find true happiness!
The Harbinger, Or, New Magazine of the Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion
Title | The Harbinger, Or, New Magazine of the Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 624 |
Release | 1856 |
Genre | Theology |
ISBN |
Romance's Rival
Title | Romance's Rival PDF eBook |
Author | Talia Schaffer |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 353 |
Release | 2016-01-05 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0190465107 |
Romance's Rival argues that the central plot of the most important genre of the nineteenth century, the marriage plot novel, means something quite different from what we thought. In Victorian novels, women may marry for erotic desire--but they might, instead, insist on "familiar marriage," marrying trustworthy companions who can offer them socially rich lives and futures of meaningful work. Romance's Rival shows how familiar marriage expresses ideas of female subjectivity dating back through the seventeenth century, while romantic marriage felt like a new, risky idea. Undertaking a major rereading of the rise-of-the-novel tradition, from Richardson through the twentieth century, Talia Schaffer rethinks what the novel meant if one tracks familiar-marriage virtues. This alternative perspective offers new readings of major texts (Austen, the Brontës, Eliot, Trollope) but it also foregrounds women's popular fiction (Yonge, Oliphant, Craik, Broughton). Offering a feminist perspective that reads the marriage plot from the woman's point of view, Schaffer inquires why a female character might legitimately wish to marry for something other than passion. For the past half-century, scholars have valorized desire, individuality, and autonomy in the way we read novels; Romance's Rival asks us to look at the other side, to validate the yearning for work, family, company, or social power as legitimate reasons for women's marital choices in Victorian fiction. Comprehensive in its knowledge of several generations of scholarship on the novel, Romance's Rival convinces us to re-examine assumptions about the nature and function of marriage and the role of the novel in helping us not simply imagine marriage but also process changing ideas about what it might look like and how it might serve people.