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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Language: | English |
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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.