The Science of Starving in Victorian Literature, Medicine, and Political Economy by Andrew Mangham (review)

IF 0.2 3区 社会学 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY VICTORIAN STUDIES Pub Date : 2022-10-01 DOI:10.2979/victorianstudies.64.3.40
Peter Scholliers
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family life,” in which the father filled the breadwinner role and the mother was a homemaker (188). The book’s study of breadwinning as ideology, however, implies potential contradictions between the social expectations generated by this template and writers’ experiences. Griffin describes the skepticism toward the political creed of individualism expressed by a woman autobiographer, Louie Stride, who had grown up homeless in the streets of Bath (296). This reference suggests that a more concentrated focus on such critical thinking might have revealed counternarratives centered on women as independent breadwinners. The book’s conclusion would have benefitted from a summary analysis of the range of autobiographers’ critical awareness of the social causes of their poverty and personal struggles. Did writers ever reject the family values enforced by the breadwinner model as hypocritical or oppressive? Did they ever allude to intimacies or partnerships outside the heterosexual norm that impacted household income? The book also lacks the perspectives of immigrant writers from the Caribbean, India, East Asia, or continental Europe, suggesting that a more intricate story about the working-class family’s economic life remains to be told. Sarah Winter University of Connecticut, Storrs
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《维多利亚文学、医学和政治经济学中的饥饿科学》作者:安德鲁·曼格姆
家庭生活”,其中父亲承担养家糊口的角色,母亲是家庭主妇(188)。然而,这本书对养家糊口作为意识形态的研究暗示了这种模板产生的社会期望与作家的经历之间的潜在矛盾。格里芬描述了一位女性传记作家路易·斯特里德对个人主义政治信条的怀疑,她在巴斯街头无家可归(296)。这一参考表明,更集中地关注这种批判性思维可能会揭示出以女性为独立养家糊口者的反叙事。这本书的结论得益于对自传作者对贫困和个人斗争的社会原因的批判性认识的总结分析。作家们有没有拒绝过养家糊口的模式所强加的家庭价值观,认为其虚伪或压迫?他们是否曾暗示过影响家庭收入的异性恋规范之外的亲密关系或伴侣关系?这本书也缺乏来自加勒比海、印度、东亚或欧洲大陆的移民作家的视角,这表明关于工人阶级家庭经济生活的更复杂的故事还有待讲述。萨拉·温特康涅狄格大学,斯托尔斯
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期刊介绍: For more than 50 years, Victorian Studies has been devoted to the study of British culture of the Victorian age. It regularly includes interdisciplinary articles on comparative literature, social and political history, and the histories of education, philosophy, fine arts, economics, law and science, as well as review essays, and an extensive book review section. An annual cumulative and fully searchable bibliography of noteworthy publications that have a bearing on the Victorian period is available electronically and is included in the cost of a subscription. Victorian Studies Online Bibliography
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