A fascinating study examining the diversities and novelties of contemporary parenthood in the light of a range of literary and philosophical works ranging from Greek tragedies to contemporary psychoanalytic theory by way of diverse writers from the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries.
A fascinating study examining the diversities and novelties of contemporary parenthood in the light of a range of literary and philosophical works ranging from Greek tragedies to contemporary psychoanalytic theory by way of diverse writers from the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries.
Rachel Bowlby, Rachel Bowlby is Northcliffe Professor of English at UCL
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction 1 Changing Conceptions 2 Surrogates and Other Mothers 3 Reproductive Choice: A Prehistory 4 Foundling Fathers and Mothers 5 Mother Power in Euripides' Medea 6 A Tale of Two Parents: Charles Dickens's Great Expectations 7 Finding a Life: George Eliot's Silas Marner 8 His and Hers: Henry Fielding's Tom Jones 9 Placement: Jane Austen's Mansfield Park 10 At All Costs: George Moore's Esther Waters 11 Between Parents: Henry James's What Maisie Knew 12 Parental Secrets in Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge 13 'I Had Barbara': Women's Ties and Edith Wharton's 'Roman Fever' Afterword
Introduction 1 Changing Conceptions 2 Surrogates and Other Mothers 3 Reproductive Choice: A Prehistory 4 Foundling Fathers and Mothers 5 Mother Power in Euripides' Medea 6 A Tale of Two Parents: Charles Dickens's Great Expectations 7 Finding a Life: George Eliot's Silas Marner 8 His and Hers: Henry Fielding's Tom Jones 9 Placement: Jane Austen's Mansfield Park 10 At All Costs: George Moore's Esther Waters 11 Between Parents: Henry James's What Maisie Knew 12 Parental Secrets in Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge 13 'I Had Barbara': Women's Ties and Edith Wharton's 'Roman Fever' Afterword
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