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Palgrave
Language
English
Pages
223

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Table of Contents

Machine generated contents note: Introduction
1 The Brother and Sister Culture
2 Brother-Sister Collaborative Relationships
Romantic partnerships: the Lambs
and the Wordsworths
Victorian partnerships: the Brontes
and the Rossettis
The Sitwell phenomenon
3 'One of the Highest Forms of Friendship':
Brother-Sister relationships in women's
autobiography
Margaret Oliphant and Elizabeth Sewell
Harriet and James Martineau
Conclusion
4 The Brother as Lover
Jane Austen and Mary Shelley
The Bronte novels
Family sagas of the 1860s
Dickens and George Eliot
Conclusion
5 The Family Revenge Novel
Early nineteenth-century Gothic representations
Dickens and L. P. Hartley: sisters in wheelchairs
Bertha Rochester: the mad sister in the attic
Bad Brothers: an introduction
Trollope and Oliphant
Protective Rivalry: Mary Cholmondeley
and William Hamilton
6 Changing Places: Siblings and Cross-Gendering
The Brontes
Walter Pater
Sarah Grand's Heavenly Twins
Eliza Lynn Linton's Christopher Kirkland
7 'Most Unwillingly Alive': Brothers and Sisters
in the First World War
Virginia Woolf
Vera Brittain and Rebecca West
Katherine Mansfield
Conclusion
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-217) and index.

Published in
Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823/.809352045
Library of Congress
PR868.B77 S26 2002, PN441-PN1009.5PN760.

The Physical Object

Pagination
ix, 223 p. ;
Number of pages
223

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Open Library
OL3947411M
Internet Archive
brothersistercul00sand
ISBN 10
0333749308
LCCN
2001034805
OCLC/WorldCat
47081291
Goodreads
3562522

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