Child of one's own parental stories
Title:
Child of one's own parental stories
Author:
Bowlby, Rachel, 1957-
ISBN:
9780191501845
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Edition:
1st ed.
Publication Information:
Oxford, UK : Oxford University Press, 2013.
Physical Description:
1 online resource.
General Note:
Title from PDF title page (viewed on July 29, 2013).
Contents:
Changing conceptions -- Surrogates and other mothers -- Reproductive choice: a prehistory -- Foundling fathers and mothers -- Childlessness: Euripides' Medea -- A tale of two parents: Charles Dickens's Great Expectations -- Finding a life: George Eliot's Silas Marner -- His and hers: Henry Fielding's Tom Jones -- Placement: Jane Austen's Mansfield Park -- At all costs: George Moore's Esther Waters -- Between parents: Henry James's What Maisie Knew -- Parental secrets in Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge -- 'I had Barbara': women's ties and Edith Wharton's 'Roman Fever'.
Abstract:
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.
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