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Other mothers : beyond the maternal ideal /

"Other Mothers, edited by Ellen Bayuk Rosenman and Claudia C. Klaver, offers a range of essays that open a conversation about Victorian motherhood as a wide-ranging, distinctive experience and idea. In spite of its importance, however, it is one of the least-studied aspects of the Victorian era...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Rosenman, Ellen Bayuk (Editor ), Klaver, Claudia C. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2008]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • "How to be a domestic goddess" redux / Deirdre D'albertis
  • "Long, long disappointment": maternal failure and masculine exhaustion in Margaret Oliphant's Autobiography / Laura Green
  • "Bland, adoring, and gently tearful women": debunking the maternal ideal in George Eliot's Felix Holt / Heather Milton
  • Elderly mothers and middle-aged daughters in Charles Dickens's Dombey and son / Teresa Mangum
  • Unforgiven: drunken mothers in Hesba Stretton's Religious Tract Society and Scottish Temperance League fiction / Deborah Denenholz Morse
  • Infant doping and middle-class motherhood: opium warnings and Charlotte Yonge's The Daisy chain / Dara Rossman Regaignon
  • Motherhood on trial: violence and unwed mothers in Victorian England / Ginger Frost
  • A murdering mother: Frances Knorr / Lucy Sussex
  • "My own dear sons": discursive maternity and proper British bodies in Wonderful adventures of Mrs. Seacole in many lands / Deirdre H. Mcmahon
  • Conceiving the nation: visions and versions of colonial prenatality / Deirdre Osborne
  • Orphan stories and maternal legacies in Charlotte Brontë / Mary Jean Corbett
  • Distance mothering and the "Cradle lands": imperial motherhood and Lady Duff Gordon's Letters from Egypt / Cara Murray
  • The text as child: gender/sex and metaphors of maternity at the Fin de siècle / Brenda R. Weber
  • The widest lap: fatness, fasting, and nurturance in nineteenth-century fiction / Lillian E. Craton
  • Mother love: Edith Simcox, maternity, and lesbian erotics / Ellen Bayuk Rosenman.