| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 237 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 57
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Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 57.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-231) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: naturally bad or dangerously good: Romantic-period mothers 'on trial' -- Revolutions in mothering: theory and practice -- A love too thick: gothic mothers and monstrous sympathies -- The Irish wet nurse: Edgeworth's Ennui -- Infanticide in an age of enlightenment: Scott's The Heart of Midlothian -- The case of the Shelleys: maternal sympathy and The Cenci post script. |
| Summary |
Julie Kipp examines Romantic writers' treatments of motherhood and maternal bodies in the context of the legal, medical, educational, and socioeconomic debates about motherhood so popular during the period. She argues that these discussions turned the physical processes associated with mothering into matters of national importance. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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English literature. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
Mother and child in literature.
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Mother and child in literature. |
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Romanticism -- Great Britain.
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Romanticism. |
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Great Britain. |
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Human body in literature.
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Human body in literature. |
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Motherhood in literature.
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Motherhood in literature. |
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Childbirth in literature.
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Childbirth in literature. |
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Mothers in literature.
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Mothers in literature. |
| Chronological Term |
1800 - 1899 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Kipp, Julie. Romanticism, maternity, and the body politic. Cambridge, England ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003 0521814553 (DLC) 2002034939 (OCoLC)50756012 |
| ISBN |
0511064934 (electronic book) |
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9780511064937 (electronic book) |
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0511120591 (electronic book) |
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9780511120596 (electronic book) |
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0511073399 |
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9780511073397 |
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0521814553 (Cloth) |
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