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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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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.