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Certain Concealments : Poe, Hawthorne, and Early Nineteenth-Century Abortion / Dana Medoro.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Medoro, Dana, 1967- author.
- Series:
- Becoming modern (University of Massachusetts Press)
- Becoming Modern: Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849--Criticism and interpretation.
- Poe, Edgar Allan.
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864--Criticism and interpretation.
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel.
- American fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
- American fiction.
- Abortion in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (238 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2022]
- Summary:
- "Antebellum America saw a great upsurge in abortion, driven in part by the rise of the pharmaceutical industry. Unsurprisingly, the practice became increasingly visible in the popular culture and literature of the era, appearing openly in advertisements, popular fiction, and newspaper reports. One figure would come to dominate national headlines from the 1840s onward: Madame Restell. Facing public condemnation and mob attacks at her home for her dogged support of women's reproductive rights, Restell built an empire selling her powders, pills, and services along the Eastern Seaboard. Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne undoubtedly knew of Restell's work and would go on to depict the incompatibility of abortion and nationalism in their writings. Through the thwarted plotlines, genealogical interruptions, and terminated ideas of Poe's Dupin trilogy and Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, The House of Seven Gables, and The Blithedale Romance, these authors consider new concepts around race, reproduction, and American exceptionalism. Dana Medoro demonstrates that their work can be usefully read in the context of debates on fetal life and personhood that circulated in the era"-- Provided by publisher.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Medoro, Dana Certain Concealments
- ISBN:
- 9781613769256
- OCLC:
- 1304833480
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