Romanticism, maternity, and the body politic /

Julie Kipp examines Romantic writers' treatments of motherhood and maternal bodies in the context of the legal, medical, educational, and socioeconomic debates about motherhood so popular during the period. She argues that these discussions turned the physical processes associated with motherin...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kipp, Julie
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, England ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Colección:Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 57.
Temas:
1800-1899
English literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Mother and child in literature.
Romanticism > Great Britain.
Human body in literature.
Motherhood in literature.
Childbirth in literature.
Mothers in literature.
Littérature anglaise > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Mère et enfant dans la littérature.
Romantisme > Grande-Bretagne.
Corps humain dans la littérature.
Maternité dans la littérature.
Mères dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Childbirth in literature
English literature
Human body in literature
Mother and child in literature
Motherhood in literature
Mothers in literature
Romanticism
Great Britain
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: naturally bad or dangerously good: Romantic-period mothers 'on trial'
  • Revolutions in mothering: theory and practice
  • A love too thick: gothic mothers and monstrous sympathies
  • The Irish wet nurse: Edgeworth's Ennui
  • Infanticide in an age of enlightenment: Scott's The Heart of Midlothian
  • The case of the Shelleys: maternal sympathy and The Cenci post script.

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