‘Wot larx!’: William Morris, Charles Dickens, and Fatherly Feelings

This essay explores the significance of William Morris’s reading of Dickens for Morris’s articulation of fatherly feelings. Recent scholarship on Victorian fatherhood has begun to overturn the stereotype of the dour, emotionally distant paterfamilias as providing only a partial understanding of form...

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Main Author: Wendy Parkins
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Library of Humanities 2011-09-01
Series:19 : Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century
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Online Access:http://www.19.bbk.ac.uk/articles/606