Rachel Bowlby

A Child of One's Own

Parental Stories

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Produktbeschreibung

A fascinating study examining the diversities and novelties of contemporary parenthood in the light of a range of literary and philosophical works ranging from Greek tragedies to contemporary psychoanalytic theory by way of diverse writers from the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juli 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 132mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 363g
• ISBN-13: 9780199607945
• ISBN-10: 019960794X
• Artikelnr.: 39339034

Autorenporträt

Rachel Bowlby is Professor of Comparative Literature at Princeton University. Her previous books include Just Looking and Carried Away, both about the history of shopping; Still Crazy After All These Years: Women, Writing and Psychoanalysis; Shopping with Freud; Feminist Destinations and Further Essays on Virginia Woolf; and Freudian Mythologies: Greek Tragedy and Modern Identities.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1: Changing Conceptions
2: Surrogates and Other Mothers
3: Reproductive Choice: A Prehistory
4: Foundling Fathers and Mothers
5: Childlessness: Euripides' Medea
6: A Tale of Two Parents: Charles Dickens's Great Expectations
7: Finding a Life: George Eliot's Silas Marner
8: His and Hers: Henry Fielding's Tom Jones
9: Placement: Jane Austen's Mansfield Park
10: At All Costs: George Moore's Esther Waters
11: Between Parents: Henry James's What Maisie Knew
12: Parental Secrets in Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge
13: 'I Had Barbara': Women's Ties and Edith Wharton's 'Roman Fever'
Afterword