Gender and fatherhood in the nineteenth century / edited by Trev Lynn Broughton and Helen Rogers.

Basingstoke ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

xiv, 199 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 190-192) and index.

Introduction, Empire of the father / Trev Lynn Broughton and Helen Rogers -- Fatherhood, religious belief and the protection of children in nineteenth-century English families / Megan Doolittle -- 'Married men and the fathers of families' : fatherhood and franchise reform in Britain / Matthew McCormack -- 'What do you want to know about next?' : Charles Kingsley's model of educational fatherhood / Valerie Sanders -- Father as mother : the image of the widower with children in Victorian art / Terri Sabatos -- Hands-on fatherhood in Trollope's novels / Margaret Markwick -- Father(ing) Christmas : fatherhood, gender and modernity in Victorian and Edwardian England / Neil Armstrong -- Father's pride? : fatherhood in industrializing communities / Andrew Walker -- 'First in the house' : daughters on working-class fathers and fatherhood / Helen Rogers -- 'Speechless with grief' : bereavement and the working-class father, c.1880-1914 / Julie-Marie Strange -- Missionary 'fathers' and wayward 'sons' in the South Pacific, 1797-1825 / Alison Twells -- Wealth of fatherhood : paternity in American adoption narratives / Claudia Nelson -- Fatherhood real, imagined, denied : men in Imperial India / Elizabeth Buettner.