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"Avuncularism" explores the fiction of Jane Austen, George Eliot, Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope, and many other writers in order to argue that the "nuclear" nineteenth-century family was, in fact, far more fractured and contradictory than twentieth-century critics have assumed. One important and long-forgotten point of such fracture is the popular nickname given to pawnbrokers in the Victorian era: My Uncle. This fundamental connection between pawnbrokers and uncles provides the touchstone of the author's larger argument: that representations of the "avunculate" (a term borrowed from anthropology) in nineteenth-century literature and culture mark a preoccupation with the increasingly theorized and embattled directives of a new political economy.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Avuncularism
• Subtitle: Capitalism, Patriarchy, and Nineteenth-Century English Culture
• Author: Eileen Cleere
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 256
• EAN: 9780804750257
• ISBN: 0804750254
• ID: 04717818
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Weight: 481 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 21 mm
• Date of publishing: 19. May 2004

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