Toni Bowers, Bowers Toni

The Politics of Motherhood

British Writing and Culture, 1680 1760

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 430g
• ISBN-13: 9780521020336
• ISBN-10: 0521020336
• Artikelnr.: 21236999

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: historicising motherhood; Part I. Royal Motherhood: Queen
Anne and the Politics of Maternal Representation: 1. 'The teeming Princess
of Denmark': Anne as mother, 1684-1700; 2. 'Thy nursing mother': symbolic
maternity and royal authority at the coronation of Queen Anne; 3. Symbolic
maternity and practical politics in Queen Anne's England; Part II.
Monstrous Motherhood: Violence, Difference, and the Subversion of Maternal
Ideals: 4. 'Unnatural' motherhood in two novels by Daniel Defoe; 5. Dreams
of maternal autonomy: scandalous motherhood in three tales by Eliza
Haywood; 6. Maternal failure and socio-economic difference: the unnatural
mother; Part III. Domestic Motherhood: Constraint, Complicity, and the
Failure of Maternal Authority: 7. Female virtue and maternal authority in
Pamela, Part 2; 8. Maternal virtue and maternal failure in Clarissa;
Conclusion: going public: the case of Lady Sarah Pennington; Appendix.