Literary Mother

Essays on Representations of Maternity and Child Care

Häftad, Engelska, 2007

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The essays in this book examine the ideology of motherhood in British and American literature from the 16th to the 21st centuries. This book looks at the institution of motherhood, that is, at various cultural interpretations and manipulations of maternity. Presenting mothers whose roles are often empowering yet confining, these essays scrutinize three distinct aspects of motherhood: its social and cultural construction; the significance of maternal absence; and, finally, its representation as an agent of social change. Literary works examined include William Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis; Daniel Defoe's Roxana; John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath; Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury; Charles Dickens' Dombey and Son; Harriet Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl; Dorothy Leigh's The Mother's Blessing; and W.S. Penn's Killing Time with Strangers, among others.

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Utgivningsdatum2007-06-13
Mått152 x 229 x 14 mm
Vikt376 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor273
FörlagMcFarland & Co Inc
ISBN9780786430468

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Table of ContentsIntroduction SECTION I: Social and Cultural Negotiations1. “My throbbing heart shall rock you day and night”: Shakespeare’s Venus, Elizabeth, and Early Modern Constructions of Motherhood 2. The “Unnatural” Mother-Daughter Relationship in Daniel Defoe’s Roxana 3. Of Home-Makers and Home-Breakers: The Deserving and the Undeserving Poor Mother in Depression Era Literature 4. The Construction of Maternity in Southern Literature: Southern Ladies, Southern Mothers, Southern Mammies, and Maternal Sexuality SECTION II: Negotiating Absence5. The Absent Mother: Negotiations of Maternal Presence in the Gothic Mode 6. “The Instinct of Nature Spoke Audibly”: Representations of the Mother-Child Bond in Mary Shelley’s Fiction 7. The Contested Site of Maternity in Charles Dickens’s Dombey and Son SECTION III: Negotiating Power8. Dorothy Leigh’s The Mother’s Blessing and the Political Maternal Voice in Seventeenth-Century England 9. “I, the Mother”: Inscribing Maternal Right in Early Modern Mothers’ Elegies 10. The Ethos of Motherhood and Harriet Jacobs’ Vision of Racial Equality in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl 11. What to Do About Motherhood: Feminist Theory and Feminist Fiction Negotiate Motherhood’s Dilemmas 12. Ceremony and Power: The Significance of the Mother in Killing Time with Strangers About the Contributors Index