Title Bearing the word : language and female experience in nineteenth-century women's writing / Margaret Homans.

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Location	Call No.	Status	OPAC Message	Public Note	Gift Note
Moore Stacks	PR469.W65 H66 1986	Available	---

Description	xiv, 326 pages ; 24 cm.
Series	Women in culture and society
	Women in culture and society.
Bibliography	Bibliography: pages 289-319.
Note	Includes index.
Contents	ch. 1. Representation, reproduction, and women's place in language -- ch. 2. Building refuges: Dorothy Wordsworth's poetics of the image -- ch. 3. Name of the mother in Wuthering Heights -- ch. 4. Dreaming of children: literalization in Jane Eyre -- ch. 5. Bearing demons: Frankenstein's circumvention of the maternal -- ch. 6. Eliot, Wordsworth, and the scenes of the sister's instruction -- ch. 7. Author as mother: bearing the word as nineteenth-century ideology -- ch. 8. Figuring the mother: Madonna Romola's incarnation -- ch. 9. Mothers and daughters I: Gaskell's stories of the mother's word and the daughter's fate -- ch. 10. Mothers and daughters II: Wives and daughters, or "Two mothers" -- Postscript: Mother and daughters in Virginia Woolf's Victorian novel.
Subject	English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
	English literature -- Women authors.
	Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
	Women and literature.
	Great Britain.
	History.
Chronological Term	19th century
Subject	English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
	English literature.
Indexed Term	English literature Women writers, 1800-1900 - Critical studies
ISBN	0226351076 : $25.00
	9780226351070