Gender and Fatherhood in the Nineteenth Century »

TREV LYNN BROUGHTON is Senior Lecturer in Women's Studies and English at the University of York. HELEN ROGERS is a Senior Lecturer in Literature and Cultural History at Liverpool John Moores University.

Fatherhood is a new area of investigation in literary, historical and cultural studies. This lively collection penetrates the stereotype of the Victorian paterfamilias to reveal intimate and involved, authoritarian and austere fathers. Examining how paternal power was embedded in social institutions, it argues that fatherhood invoked more anxiety and debate than hitherto acknowledged. As these innovative, interdisciplinary essays show, the history of fatherhood can illuminate our understanding of class society and empire as well as gender and the family.

Introduction--T.Broughton & H.Rogers
• PART ONE: The Sovereignty of the Father
• Fatherhood, Masculinity and the Protection of Children in Nineteenth-Century English Families--M.Doolittle
• Married Men and the Fathers of Families: Fatherhood and Parliamentary Reform in Britain--M.McCormack
• Fathers of Civilisation? Missionary Paternalism and Masculinity in the South Pacific, 1796-1832--A.Twells
• PART TWO: Prescription and Practices
• 'What do you Want to Know About Next' Charles Kingsley's Model of Educational Fatherhood--V.Sanders
• Hands-on Fatherhood in Trollope's Novels--M.Markwick
• Father as Mother: The Image of the Widower with Children in Victorian Art--T.Sabatos
• PART THREE: A Different Class
• Father's Pride? Fatherhood in Nineteenth-Century Industrialising Communities--A.Walker
• 'The Father's Rights Are First in the House': Working Women on Fathers and Fatherhood--H.Rogers
• 'Speechless with Grief': Bereavement and the Working Class Father, c. 1880-1914--J-M.Strange
• PART FOUR: Changing Dynamics
• Father(ing) Christmas: Exploring the Role of Fatherhood in the Domestic Celebration of Christmas in Nineteenth-Century England--N.Armstrong
• A Wealth of Fatherhood: Paternal Roles in Adoption Texts--C.Nelson
• Fatherhood Real, Imagined, Denied: British Men in Imperial India--E.Buettner