1st Edition
Affairs of the Hearth Victorian Poetry and Domestic Narrative
Preface 1. Introduction 2. The ‘celled-up dishonour of boyhood’: Clough’s The Bothie of Toper-na-Fuosich 3. ‘A sweet disorder in the dresse’: Tennyson’s The Princess 4. ‘A printing woman who has lost her place’: Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Aurora Leigh 5. Who needs men? Christina Rossetti’s Goblin Market 6. ‘Turbid pictures’: George Meredith’s Modern Love 7. Conclusion
Biography
Rod Edmond was born in New Zealand and educated at Victoria University Wellington and Merton College Oxford. Subsequently Professor, he is now Emeritus Professor of Modern Literature and Cultural History at the University of Kent. His main fields of publication include Victorian, postcolonial and Pacific writing, history and literature of empire, migration, travel writing, island studies, history of medicine, the Kent coast, and the history of cricket. He is the co-founder and formerly co-editor of the Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures series.
Review of the first publication:
‘…approachable and pleasantly written book…’
— Marion Shaw, The Review of English Studies
