The spectacle of intimacy : a public life for the Victorian family / Karen Chase and Michael Levenson.
Love of home life, the intimate moments a family peacefully enjoyed in seclusion, had long been considered a hallmark of English character even before the Victorian era. But the Victorians attached unprecedented importance to domesticity, romanticizing the family in every medium from novels to gover...
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: the trouble with families
- The trials of Caroline Norton: poetry, publicity, and the prime minister
- The young queen and the parliamentary bedchamber: "I never saw a man so frightened"
- Sarah Stickney ellis: the ardent woman and the abject wife
- Tom's pinch: the sexual serpent beside the Dickensian fireside
- Love after death: the deceased wife's sister bill
- The transvestite, the bloomer, and the nightingale
- On the parapets of privacy: walls of wealth and dispossession
- Robert Kerr: The Gentleman's House and the one-room solution
- The empire of divorce: single women, the bill of 1857, and revolt in India
- Bigamy and modernity: the case of Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Epilogue: between manual and spectacle.