Mothering daughters : novels and the politics of family romance : Frances Burney to Jane Austen / / Susan C. Greenfield

• Autore: Greenfield Susan C
• Pubblicazione: Detroit, : Wayne State University Press, 2003
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (230 p.)
• Disciplina: 823.50935252
• Soggetto topico: English fiction - Women authors - History and criticism; Mothers and daughters in literature; Women and literature - Great Britain - History - 18th century; Women and literature - Great Britain - History - 19th century; English fiction - 18th century - History and criticism; English fiction - 19th century - History and criticism; Feminist fiction, English - History and criticism; Domestic fiction, English - History and criticism; Motherhood in literature; Mothers in literature; Families in literature
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: "The lovely resemblance of her lovely mother": Evelina and later novels -- Gothic mothers and homoerotic desire: incestuous longing in the Italian -- The maternal bosom: sexual difference and custody in the wrongs of woman; or, Maria -- The maternal bosom: sexual and colonial difference in Belinda -- Mother, daughter, and mulatto: women's exchange in Adeline Mowbray -- The riddle of Emma: maternity and the unconscious.
• Sommario/riassunto: The rise of the novel and of the ideal nuclear family was no mere coincidence, argues Susan C. Greenfield in this fascinating look at the construction of modern maternity.
• Titolo autorizzato: Mothering daughters
• ISBN: 9780814338285; 0814338283
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910967177603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II