Author: Eileen CleerePublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804750257
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Avuncularism argues that the famously "nuclear" family of nineteenth-century literature and culture was, in fact, far more fractured and contradictory than twentieth-century critics have assumed. Instead, Cleere isolates an alternative paradigm of the "avunculate," suggesting that an interest in Uncles rather than Fathers marks a preoccupation with the increasingly theorized and embattled directives of a new political economy.
