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Writing the modern family : contemporary literature, motherhood and neoliberal culture / Roberta Garrett.

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Book
Author/Creator:
Garrett, Roberta, 1965- author.
Contributor:
ProQuest ebook central.
Series:
Radical cultural studies
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Families in literature.
English prose literature--Women authors--History and criticism.
English prose literature.
English prose literature--Women authors.
American prose literature--Women authors--History and criticism.
American prose literature.
American prose literature--Women authors.
English fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
English fiction.
English fiction--21st century--History and criticism.
American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
American fiction.
American fiction--21st century--History and criticism.
Women--United States--Biography--History and criticism.
Women.
United States.
Women--Great Britain--Biography--History and criticism.
Great Britain.
Parenthood in literature.
Motherhood in literature.
Genre:
Biographies.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (viii, 191 pages.)
Place of Publication:
Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, an imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2021]
System Details:
text file
Contents:
Introduction Writing Home: The Return to the Domestic in Women's Fiction
I Blame the Parents: Class, Race and Mother-hate in Contemporary Misery Memoirs
Novels and Children: Mums Lit and the Public Mother
Maternal Memoirs: Truth, Myth and Resistance in the work of Chua, Myerson and Cusk
Fathers know best: dads lit and the childcare wars of the mid 2000s
Angels and Demons: Mother/Son Conflict and Bonding in the Dysfunctional Domestic Novel
A Home of One's Own: Domestic Crime Fiction, Motherhood and Property
Conclusion A #metoo for Motherhood?
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-176) and index.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
Description based on print version record.
Other Format:
Online version: Garrett, Roberta, Writing the modern family
ISBN:
9781786605191
1786605198
Publisher Number:
40030372219
Access Restriction:
Restricted for use by site license.

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