Domesticity, Imperialism, and Emigration in the Victorian Novel

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University of Missouri Press, 2002 - 214 стор.
 

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Сторінка xiii - This is the true nature of home — it is the place of Peace ; the shelter, not only from all injury, but from all terror, doubt, and division.
Сторінка xiv - In so far as it is not this, it is not home; so far as the anxieties of the outer life penetrate into it, and the inconsistently-minded, unknown, unloved, or hostile society of the outer world is allowed by either husband or wife to cross the threshold, it ceases to be home; it is then only a part of that outer world which you have roofed over, and lighted fire in. But so far as it is a sacred place, a vestal temple, a temple of the hearth watched over by Household Gods...
Сторінка ix - MID pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home!
Сторінка xii - The living utterance, having taken meaning and shape at a particular historical moment in a socially specific environment, cannot fail to brush up against thousands of living dialogic threads, woven by socio-ideological consciousness around the given object of an utterance; it cannot fail to become an active participant in social dialogue.
Сторінка xiv - ... threshold, it ceases to be home; it is then only a part of that outer world which you have roofed over, and lighted fire in. But so far as it is a sacred place, a vestal temple, a temple of the hearth watched over by Household Gods, before whose faces none may come but those whom they can receive with love. — so far as it is this, and roof and fire are types only of a nobler shade and light, — shade as of the rock in a weary land,1 and light as of the Pharos in the stormy sea: — so far...

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