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Mothering daughters : novels and the politics of family romance : Frances Burney to Jane Austen / Susan C. Greenfield.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Greenfield, Susan C.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English fiction--Women authors--History and criticism.
- English fiction.
- Mothers and daughters in literature.
- Women and literature--Great Britain--History--18th century.
- Women and literature.
- Women and literature--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- English fiction--18th century--History and criticism.
- English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
- Feminist fiction, English--History and criticism.
- Feminist fiction, English.
- Domestic fiction, English--History and criticism.
- Domestic fiction, English.
- Motherhood in literature.
- Mothers in literature.
- Families in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (230 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Detroit : Wayne State University Press, 2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The rise of the novel and of the ideal nuclear family was no mere coincidence, argues Susan C. Greenfield in this fascinating look at the construction of modern maternity.
- Contents:
- "The lovely resemblance of her lovely mother": Evelina and later novels
- Gothic mothers and homoerotic desire: incestuous longing in the Italian
- The maternal bosom: sexual difference and custody in the wrongs of woman; or, Maria
- The maternal bosom: sexual and colonial difference in Belinda
- Mother, daughter, and mulatto: women's exchange in Adeline Mowbray
- The riddle of Emma: maternity and the unconscious.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780814338285
- 0814338283
- OCLC:
- 868216216
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