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Claudia Nelson
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      Invisible Men focuses on the tremendous growth of periodical literature from 1850 to 1910 to illustrate how Victorian and Edwardian thought and culture problematized fatherhood within the family. Drawing on political, scientific, domestic, and religious periodicals, Claudia Nelson shows how positive portrayals of fatherhood virtually disappeared as motherhood claimed an exalted position with imagined ties to patriotism, social reform, and religious influence.The study begins with the pre-Victorian role of the father in the middle-class home—as one who led the family in prayer, administered discipline, and determined the children’s education, marriage, and career. In subsequent decades, fatherhood was increasingly scrutinized while a new definition of motherhood and femininity emerged. The solution to the newly perceived dilemma of fatherhood appeared rooted in traditional feminine values—nurturance, selflessness, and sensitivity.The critique presented in Invisible Men extends our contemporary debate over men’s proper role within the family, providing a historical context for the various images of fatherhood as we practice and dispute them today.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Claudia Nelson EAN: 9780820337111 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 333 g HEIGHT: 216 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: University of Georgia Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2010-09-01 CITY: GENRE: FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Parenting / Fatherhood, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Men's Studies WIDTH: 140 cm SPINE:

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      Literary studies: general, Literary companions, book reviews and guides, Gender studies: men and boys

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      Claudia Nelson is a professor of English at Texas A&M University. She is author or editor of numerous books including "Family Ties in Victorian England, The Girl's Own: Cultural Histories of the Anglo-American Girl, 1830-1915" (Georgia), and "Little Strangers: Portrayals of Adoption in America, 1850-1929, " which won the Children's Literature Association award for the best scholarly book of the year.
      Invisible Men focuses on the tremendous growth of periodical literature from 1850 to 1910 to illustrate how Victorian and Edwardian thought and culture problematized fatherhood within the family. Drawing on political, scientific, domestic, and religious periodicals, Claudia Nelson shows how positive portrayals of fatherhood virtually disappeared as motherhood claimed an exalted position with imagined ties to patriotism, social reform, and religious influence.The study begins with the pre-Victorian role of the father in the middle-class home—as one who led the family in prayer, administered discipline, and determined the children’s education, marriage, and career. In subsequent decades, fatherhood was increasingly scrutinized while a new definition of motherhood and femininity emerged. The solution to the newly perceived dilemma of fatherhood appeared rooted in traditional feminine values—nurturance, selflessness, and sensitivity.The critique presented in Invisible Men extends our contemporary debate over men’s proper role within the family, providing a historical context for the various images of fatherhood as we practice and dispute them today.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Claudia Nelson EAN: 9780820337111 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 333 g HEIGHT: 216 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: University of Georgia Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2010-09-01 CITY: GENRE: FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Parenting / Fatherhood, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Men's Studies WIDTH: 140 cm SPINE:

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      Literary studies: general, Literary companions, book reviews and guides, Gender studies: men and boys

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      Claudia Nelson is a professor of English at Texas A&M University. She is author or editor of numerous books including "Family Ties in Victorian England, The Girl's Own: Cultural Histories of the Anglo-American Girl, 1830-1915" (Georgia), and "Little Strangers: Portrayals of Adoption in America, 1850-1929, " which won the Children's Literature Association award for the best scholarly book of the year.

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