Negotiating motherhood in nineteenth-century American literature /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Wearn, Mary McCartin
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Routledge, [2008]
Series:	American popular history and culture (Routledge (Firm))
Subjects:	American literature > 19th century > History and criticism. Motherhood in literature. Mothers in literature. Women and literature > United States > History > 19th century.
Online Access:	Table of contents only Publisher description

Table of Contents:

"Stronger than all was maternal love": maternal idealism in Uncle Tom's cabin
No more "the pillow of affection": deconstructing the "softening influence" of motherhood in The Scarlet Letter
"Links... of gold": the bonds of motherhood in Incidents in the life of a slave girl
"She has been burning palaces": the maternal poetics of Sarah Piatt.