Writing maternity : medicine, anxiety, rhetoric, and genre / Dara Rossman Regaignon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Regaignon, Dara Rossman, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motherhood in literature.

Anxiety in women.

Child rearing in literature.

English literature--19th century--History and criticism.

English literature.

Children--Great Britain--Social conditions.

Children.

Children--Social conditions.

Social conditions.

Great Britain.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xvi, 186 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2021]

Summary:

"Traces the rhetorical origins of maternal anxiety in Victorian literature-bringing concepts such as uptake and genre ecology into literary studies from rhetorical genre theory-by examining advice literature, British life writing, and novels by Charles Dickens, Charlotte Mary Yonge, Elizabeth Gaskell, Charlotte Brontë, and Anne Brontë"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Preface: Historicizing maternal anxiety

The rhetorical origins of maternal anxiety

Of mothers and medical men: advice as genre

Probability and premature death: child mortality, prolepsis, and the serial novel

Supervisory attention and maternal management: paralipsis, paid childcare, and novelistic perspective

Godfrey's Cordial and an opium pill: empire, family, and maternal attention

Coda: Genre as advice.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-178) and index.

ISBN:

9780814214695

081421469X

OCLC:

1199328004