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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Melissa Shields JenkinsPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Weight: 0.453kg ISBN: 9781138257849ISBN 10: 1138257842 Pages: 216 Publication Date: 30 November 2016 Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Tertiary & Higher Education , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsIntroduction; Part I Traditional Authority; Chapter 1 Elizabeth Gaskell Writes a Father’s Life; Chapter 2 A Father’s Conduct: George Meredith and the Book-within-a-Book; Part II Charismatic Authority; Chapter 3 “An Attitude of Decent Reverence”: Thackeray and the Father at Prayer; Chapter 4 “Lay Hold of Them by Their Fatherhood”: George Eliot, Persuasion, and Abstraction; Part III Legal-Rational Authority; Chapter 5 Samuel Butler at the Museum; Chapter 6 “Preserve the Shadow of the Form”: Hardy’s Palimpsests; conclusion The Father as “Type”;Reviews"'This is a distinctly new kind of book on fatherhood: an innovative study of the troubled relations between real and fictional fathers and sons, and the extra-literary texts that shaped them. Juxtaposing J.S. Mill and Max Weber, Melissa Jenkins's lively and provocative analysis tracks shifting notions of patriarchal authority from Gaskell to Gosse through engagement with conduct books and family prayers, palimpsests and science writing, to create an ""idea of the father"" perpetually under reconstruction.' Valerie Sanders, University of Hull, UK '... a fresh interdisciplinary study that will interest scholars in both masculinity studies and genre studies.' Review of English Studies '[An] insightful book ... Scholars will certainly benefit from the book's impressive research and perceptive observations. It offers insights ... which emerge readily from the many wonderfully suggestive correspondences and metaphoric echoes Jenkins discovers within and between her texts.' Journal of British Studies" 'This is a distinctly new kind of book on fatherhood: an innovative study of the troubled relations between real and fictional fathers and sons, and the extra-literary texts that shaped them. Juxtaposing J.S. Mill and Max Weber, Melissa Jenkins's lively and provocative analysis tracks shifting notions of patriarchal authority from Gaskell to Gosse through engagement with conduct books and family prayers, palimpsests and science writing, to create an idea of the father perpetually under reconstruction.' Valerie Sanders, University of Hull, UK '... a fresh interdisciplinary study that will interest scholars in both masculinity studies and genre studies.' Review of English Studies '[An] insightful book ... Scholars will certainly benefit from the book's impressive research and perceptive observations. It offers insights ... which emerge readily from the many wonderfully suggestive correspondences and metaphoric echoes Jenkins discovers within and between her texts.' Journal of British Studies Author InformationMelissa Shields Jenkins is Assistant Professor of English at Wake Forest University, USA. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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