The Daughter's Dilemma: Family Process and the Nineteenth-Century Domestic Novel

by Paula Marantz Cohen

The Daughter's Dilemma breaks new ground in literary studies through its application of family systems theory to the analysis of nineteenth-century domestic novels. Cohen argues for structural correspondences between families and novels: as systems seeking closure, they are governed by certain analogous laws. She argues further that the father-daughter dyad is the pivotal structure by which the nuclear family and the domestic novel were able to define...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472082329
• ISBN13: 9780472082322
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"