The literary mother : essays on representations of maternity and child care /

"The book looks at motherhood, also social and cultural dictates. Works examined include William Shakespeare's Venus; Daniel Defoe's Roxana; Charles Dickens' Dombey and Son; Harriet Jacobs' Incidents in the life of a slave girl; John Steinbeck's The grapes of wrath; Dor...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Staub, Susan C.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., [2007]
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Online Access:Table of contents only
Table of Contents:
  • "My throbbing heart shall rock you day and night": Shakespeare's Venus, Elizabeth, and early modern constructions of motherhood / Susan C. Staub
  • The "unnatural" mother-daughter relationship in Daniel Defoe's Roxana / Rebecca Shapiro
  • Of home-makers and home-breakers: the deserving and the undeserving poor mother in depression era literature / Vivyan C. Adair
  • The construction of maternity in southern literature: southern ladies, southern mothers, southern mammies, and maternal sexualtiy / Mary M. Bendel-Simso
  • The absent mother: negotiations of maternal presence in the Gothic mode / Ruth Bienstock Anolik
  • "The instinct of nature spoke audibly": representations of the mother-child bond in Mary Shelley's fiction / Sharon L. Joffe
  • The contested site of maternity in Charles Dickens's Dombey and Son / Melisa Klimaszewski
  • Dorothy Leigh's The Mother's Blessing and the political maternal voice in seventeenth-century England / Edith Snook
  • "I, the mother": inscribing maternal righ tin early modern mothers' elegies / Donna J. Long
  • The ethos of motherhood and Harriet Jacobs' vision of racial equality in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl / Grace McEntee
  • What to do about motherhood: feminist theory and feminist fiction negotiate motherhhoods's dilemmas / Joyce Shaw Peterson
  • Ceremony and power: the significance of the mother in Killing Time with Stragers / Tammy Wahpeconiah.