'"My father shook my soul awake"': Salvaging Family Relationships in George Eliot's Poetry
(2011)
Journal Article
Sanders, V. (2011). '"My father shook my soul awake"': Salvaging Family Relationships in George Eliot's Poetry. George Eliot - George Henry Lewes Studies, 60-61, 77 - 90
All Outputs (36)
`I had imagined myself into being': storytelling girls in children's fiction from the beginning and end of the twentieth century (2010)
Thesis
Snelling, S. L. (2010). `I had imagined myself into being': storytelling girls in children's fiction from the beginning and end of the twentieth century. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4211481This thesis is a text-based study of storytelling girls in children's fiction from the beginning and end of the twentieth century, providing close readings of three texts from each of these periods. Books in Part One are drawn from the canon of class... Read More about `I had imagined myself into being': storytelling girls in children's fiction from the beginning and end of the twentieth century.
'Is there no work in hand?' : the idle son theme at mid-century (2010)
Journal Article
Sanders, V. R. (2010). 'Is there no work in hand?' : the idle son theme at mid-century. Studies in the Literary Imagination, 43(1), 49-67This article presents work as the possible site of a generational conflict over the definition of masculinity between parents and children, focusing on the father and son dynamic. It tackles cases of idle sons, or educated young men who cannot establ... Read More about 'Is there no work in hand?' : the idle son theme at mid-century.
Godfathering: the politics of Victorian family relations (2009)
Book Chapter
Sanders, V. (2009). Godfathering: the politics of Victorian family relations. In L. Delap, B. Griffin, & A. Wills (Eds.), The Politics of Domestic Authority in Britain since 1800 (243-260). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230250796In Chapter 5 of Dickens’ Dombey and Son (1848), Mr Dombey, who has longed all his married life for a son to inherit the family business, finally acquires one — at the cost of his exhausted wife — and is planning little Paul’s christening ceremony. Hi... Read More about Godfathering: the politics of Victorian family relations.
New men in Trollope's novels: rewriting the Victorian male, by Margaret Markwick, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2007 (2008)
Journal Article
Sanders, V. (2008). New men in Trollope's novels: rewriting the Victorian male, by Margaret Markwick, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2007. Journal of gender studies, 17(4), 389 - 390. https://doi.org/10.1080/09589230802420201
Book review: The Works of Elizabeth Gaskell. Ed by Joanne Shattock; Deirdre d'Albertis; Josie Billington; Linda Hughes; Linda Peterson; Elisabeth Jay; Charlotte Mitchell; Marion Shaw; Alan Shelston (2008)
Journal Article
Sanders, V. (2008). Book review: The Works of Elizabeth Gaskell. Ed by Joanne Shattock; Deirdre d'Albertis; Josie Billington; Linda Hughes; Linda Peterson; Elisabeth Jay; Charlotte Mitchell; Marion Shaw; Alan Shelston. The Modern language review, 103(3), 835-838. https://doi.org/10.2307/20467939
The rebel, the lady and the 'anti': femininity, anti-feminism, and the Victorian woman writer (2006)
Journal Article
Heilmann, A., & Sanders, V. (2006). The rebel, the lady and the 'anti': femininity, anti-feminism, and the Victorian woman writer. Women's studies international forum, 29(3), 289-300. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wsif.2006.04.008Anti-feminist journalists and women writers had a crucial role in contributing to the feminist debate in Victorian Britain. As an organized political movement Victorian anti-feminism significantly post-dated the rise of anti-feminist literature in th... Read More about The rebel, the lady and the 'anti': femininity, anti-feminism, and the Victorian woman writer.
'House of disquiet': The Benson family auto/biographies (2006)
Book Chapter
Sanders, V. (2006). 'House of disquiet': The Benson family auto/biographies. In D. Amigoni (Ed.), Life Writing and Victorian Culture (215-231). London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315250502The Bensons were a Victorian family dedicated to telling and retelling the story of their lives. The Bensons have attracted considerable interest from critics and historians working in the field of Victorianfamily relations and masculinity, especiall... Read More about 'House of disquiet': The Benson family auto/biographies.
Woman's right to revelation : literary representations of spiritual sensibility in the writings of Hannah More, Mary Wollstonecraft, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Mary Baker Eddy (2005)
Thesis
Ingham, A. M. 1. (2005). Woman's right to revelation : literary representations of spiritual sensibility in the writings of Hannah More, Mary Wollstonecraft, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Mary Baker Eddy. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4220311[From the introduction]:
This thesis will explore the philosophical writing of four female reformers, identifying how their spiritual representations of the feminine attempted to authorise and empower women. It will critically investigate how Hannah... Read More about Woman's right to revelation : literary representations of spiritual sensibility in the writings of Hannah More, Mary Wollstonecraft, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Mary Baker Eddy.
Imagining men : Charlotte M. Yonge and mid-Victorian masculinities. (2005)
Thesis
Walton, S. K. (2005). Imagining men : Charlotte M. Yonge and mid-Victorian masculinities. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4215881This thesis studies some of the writings of Charlotte Yonge as a route into the cultural concepts of masculinity in the mid-nineteenth century. In her many best-selling publications, both fiction and non-fiction, together with her editorial control o... Read More about Imagining men : Charlotte M. Yonge and mid-Victorian masculinities..
The female narrator in the British novel: hidden agendas. Lisa Sternlieb, 2002 (2003)
Journal Article
Sanders, V. (2003). The female narrator in the British novel: hidden agendas. Lisa Sternlieb, 2002. Journal of gender studies, 12(1), 54 - 55
Caroline Roberts , The woman and the hour: Harriet Martineau and Victorian ideologies. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002 (2003)
Journal Article
Sanders, V. (2003). Caroline Roberts , The woman and the hour: Harriet Martineau and Victorian ideologies. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002. Nineteenth-Century Literature, 57(4), 552 - 554
Harriet Martineau in the bicentenary year (2002)
Journal Article
Sanders, V. (2002). Harriet Martineau in the bicentenary year. Women's Writing, 9(3), 331-336. https://doi.org/10.1080/09699080200200174
Mrs Oliphant and Emotion (1999)
Journal Article
Sanders, V. (1999). Mrs Oliphant and Emotion. Women's Writing, 6(2), 181-189. https://doi.org/10.1080/09699089900200072Margaret Oliphant's treatment of emotion in her writings is disturbing and problematic. Even in herAutobiography, where she grieves for her dead children, she distinguishes between significant and insignificant deaths; while in her novels, she sees f... Read More about Mrs Oliphant and Emotion.
The Selected Works of Margaret Oliphant: Literary Criticism 1877-1886
Book
Sanders, V. The Selected Works of Margaret Oliphant: Literary Criticism 1877-1886. Routledge
The Tragi-Comedy of Victorian Fatherhood
Book
Sanders, V. The Tragi-Comedy of Victorian Fatherhood. The University of Hull