Jennifer S. Henke

Reproduction and the Maternal Body in Literature and Culture

Bodies of Knowledge, 1726-1818

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines a selection of texts to illuminate how midwifery, obstetrics and women's bodies were viewed during the long eighteenth century, and how these material-discursive entanglements between science, medicine, literature and culture have shaped society's views of pregnancy, childbirth and reproduction.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Mai 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm
• ISBN-13: 9781032741703
• ISBN-10: 1032741708
• Artikelnr.: 72598721

Autorenporträt

Jennifer S. Henke is a literary and cultural studies scholar, with a PhD from the University of Bremen, Germany. Until recently, she was interim professor in Anglophone Gender Studies at the University of Greifswald, Germany.

Inhaltsangabe

1.PART I Mapping the Field
1.1. Introduction: In the Delivery Room
1.2. Context: Historicising the Reproductive Body
1.3. Framework: Beyond Representationalism
2. PART II Science
Sex & Secret Bodies of Knowledge
2.1. Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels (1726)
2.2. John Cleland's Fanny Hill (1749)
2.3. Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy (1759)
2.4. Eliza Fenwick's Secresy
Or: The Ruin on the Rock (1795)
2.5. Mary Wollstonecraft's Maria
Or: The Wrongs of Woman (1798)
2.6. Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Or: The Modern Prometheus (1818)
3. PART III Stitching the Pieces Together
3.1 Stitching
4.Bibliography