Other Mothers : Beyond the Maternal Ideal /

Other Mothers : Beyond the Maternal Ideal /

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"Other Mothers, edited by Ellen Bayuk Rosenman and Claudia C. Klaver, offers a range of essays that open a conversation about Victorian motherhood as a wide-ranging, distinctive experience and idea. In spite of its importance, however, it is one of the least-studied aspects of the Victorian era...

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Other Authors: Klaver, Claudia C. (Editor), Rosenman, Ellen Bayuk (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2008]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Soziale Rolle
Mutterschaft
Mutter
Mutter > Motiv
Literatur
Englisch
Social classes in literature.
Sex role in literature.
Race in literature.
Mothers in literature.
Motherhood > Social aspects.
Motherhood > Political aspects.
Motherhood in literature.
Femininity (Philosophy) in literature.
English literature.
Race dans la litterature.
Classes sociales dans la litterature.
Rôle selon le sexe dans la litterature.
Maternite > Aspect politique > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Maternite > Aspect social > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Maternite > Philosophie.
Meres dans la litterature.
Maternite dans la litterature.
Litterature anglaise > 19e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Motherhood > Political aspects > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Motherhood > Social aspects > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Motherhood > Philosophy.
English literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Englisch.
Grossbritannien
Great Britain.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Aufsatzsammlung.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • "How to be a domestic goddess" redux / Deirdre D'albertis
  • "Long, long disappointment": maternal failure and masculine exhaustion in Margaret Oliphant's Autobiography / Laura Green
  • "Bland, adoring, and gently tearful women": debunking the maternal ideal in George Eliot's Felix Holt / Heather Milton
  • Elderly mothers and middle-aged daughters in Charles Dickens's Dombey and son / Teresa Mangum
  • Unforgiven: drunken mothers in Hesba Stretton's Religious Tract Society and Scottish Temperance League fiction / Deborah Denenholz Morse
  • Infant doping and middle-class motherhood: opium warnings and Charlotte Yonge's The Daisy chain / Dara Rossman Regaignon
  • Motherhood on trial: violence and unwed mothers in Victorian England / Ginger Frost
  • A murdering mother: Frances Knorr / Lucy Sussex
  • "My own dear sons": discursive maternity and proper British bodies in Wonderful adventures of Mrs. Seacole in many lands / Deirdre H. Mcmahon
  • Conceiving the nation: visions and versions of colonial prenatality / Deirdre Osborne
  • Orphan stories and maternal legacies in Charlotte Brontë / Mary Jean Corbett
  • Distance mothering and the "Cradle lands": imperial motherhood and Lady Duff Gordon's Letters from Egypt / Cara Murray
  • The text as child: gender/sex and metaphors of maternity at the Fin de siecle / Brenda R. Weber
  • The widest lap: fatness, fasting, and nurturance in nineteenth-century fiction / Lillian E. Craton
  • Mother love: Edith Simcox, maternity, and lesbian erotics / Ellen Bayuk Rosenman.

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