Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Introduction -- Mothering Daughters -- Novels and the Politics of Family Romance -- Modern Maternity and Women's Novels -- Politics and Psychoanalysis -- Mothering Daughters and Feminist Scholarship -- Earlier Mothers: Roxana and Mrs. Shandy -- Frances Burney to Jane Austen -- CHAPTER I -- "The Lovely Resemblance of Her Lovely Mother" -- Evelina and Later Novels -- The-Name-of-the-Father -- Evelina and The-Name-of-the-Mother -- The Mother's Law -- The Power of Pregnancy -- Mother-Child Bonding and Social Reorganization -- The Resemblance Motif -- CHAPTER 2 -- Gothic Mothers and Homoerotic Desire -- Incestuous Longing in The Italian -- Psychoanalysis and the Daughter's Desire -- Homoeroticism and History -- Homoerotic Incestuous Desire in The Italian -- Compulsory Heterosexuality -- Heterosexual Incest in The Mysterious Mother and The Monk -- CHAPTER 3 -- The Maternal Bosom -- Sexual Difference and Custody in The Wrongs of Woman -- or, Maria -- The Politics of Maternal Breastfeeding -- Mary Wollstonecraft -- A Vindication of the Rights of Woman -- The Wrongs of Woman -- or, Maria -- The Infant Custody Bill -- CHAPTER 4 -- The Maternal Bosom -- Sexual and Colonial Difference in Belinda -- Maria Edgeworth and Colonialism -- Sexual Ambiguity and the Maternal Cure -- Miscegenation and Colonial Boundaries -- CHAPTER 5 -- Mother, Daughter, and Mulatto -- Womens Exchange in Adeline Mowbray -- The Mother and Daughter -- The Mulatto -- The Exchange Between Women -- CHAPTER 6 -- The Riddle of Emma -- Maternity and the Unconscious -- Austen's Mothers and Narrative Perspective -- Box Hill -- Mothering Heterosexuality -- NOTES -- WORKS CITED -- INDEX.