The Literary Mother

Essays on Representations of Maternity and Child Care
Herausgeber: Staub, Susan C.

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Mai 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 449g
• ISBN-13: 9780786430468
• ISBN-10: 078643046X
• Artikelnr.: 22575952

Autorenporträt

Susan C. Staub is an English professor at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Introduction     
SECTION I: Social and Cultural Negotiations
1. "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 Absence
5. 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 Power
8. 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