Fatherhood and the British working class, 1865-1914

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The work Fatherhood and the British working class, 1865-1914 represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Bowdoin College Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Fatherhood and the British working class, 1865-1914

Statement of responsibility

Julie-Marie Strange, University of Manchester

Creator

• Strange, Julie-Marie, 1973-

Subject

• Fatherhood -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
• Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 19th century
• Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 20th century
• Fatherhood -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
• Working class families -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
• Working class men -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
• Working class men -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
• Working class families -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century

Language

eng

Summary

"A pioneering study of Victorian and Edwardian fatherhood, investigating what being, and having, a father meant to working-class people. Based on working-class autobiography, the book challenges dominant assumptions about absent or 'feckless' fathers, and reintegrates the paternal figure within the emotional life of families. Locating this autobiography within broader social and cultural commentary, Julie-Marie Strange considers material culture, everyday practice, obligation, duty and comedy as sites for the development and expression of complex emotional lives. Emphasising the importance of separating men as husbands from men as fathers, Strange explores how emotional ties were formed between fathers and their children, the models of fatherhood available to working-class men, and the ways in which fathers interacted with children inside and outside the home. She explodes the myth that working-class interiorities are inaccessible or unrecoverable, and locates life stories in the context of other sources, including social surveys, visual culture and popular fiction"--

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Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

DLC

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography