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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457183703321

Autore

Walker Lesley H. <1960->

Titolo

A mother's love [[electronic resource] ] : crafting feminine virtue in Enlightenment France / / Lesley H. Walker

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lewisburg [PA], : Bucknell University Press, c2008

ISBN

0-8387-5911-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (251 p.)

Collana

The Bucknell studies in eighteenth-century literature and culture

Disciplina

306.874/3094409033

Soggetti

Motherhood - France - History - 18th century

Love, Maternal - France - History - 18th century

Women - France - Intellectual life - 18th century

Women - France - Social conditions - 18th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 230-238) and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""Illustrations""; ""Acknowledgments ""; ""Rethinking Domesticity in Eighteenth-century France""; ""The Diligent Mother""; ""When Girls Read Rousseau or a Rake�s Progress""; ""The Erotics of Motherhood""; ""The Good Mother or the Sex Born to Suffer""; ""Nostalgia and Maternal Loss""; ""Conclusion""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""