Avuncularism: Capitalism, Patriarchy, and Nineteenth-Century English Culture

Author/Contributor(s):	Cleere, Eileen
Publisher:	Stanford University Press
Date:	05/19/2004
Binding:	Hardcover
Condition:	NEW

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.