Fiction as social fantasy: Europe's domestic crisis of 1879-1914.

From: Journal of Social History | Date: June 22, 1994| Author: Binion, Rudolph | Copyright information

This article begins by itemizing the harsh grievances against the family that informed European fiction from Henrik Ibsen's A Doll House of 1879 until World War I even as Europe's old stream of direct sectarian or libertarian challenges to the family all but dried up. The article then derives that sudden, bitter fictional indictment of the family from Europe's concurrent generalization of marital birth control, itself a defense against an imminent threat of overpopulation. For the charges lev...

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