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Inventing maternity : politics, science, and literature, 1650-1865 / edited by Susan C. Greenfield and Carol Barash.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, [1999]Copyright date: ©1999Description: viii, 274 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0813120780
  • 9780813120782
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.8743 21
LOC classification:
  • HQ759 .I57 1999
Contents:
Making up for losses: the workings of gender in William Harvey's de Generatione animalium / Eve Keller -- "Such is my bond": maternity and economy in Anne Bradstreet's writing / Kimberly Latta -- Aborting the "Mother plot": politics and generation in Absalom and Achitophel / Susan C. Greenfield -- The pregnant imagination, women's bodies, and fetal rights / Julia Epstein -- "A point of conscience": breastfeeding and maternal authority in Pamela, part 2 / Toni Bowers -- Mary Wollstonecraft: styles of radical maternity / Claudia L. Johnson -- Maria Edgeworth and the politics of consumption: eating, breastfeeding, and the Irish wet nurse in Ennue / Julie Costello -- Reproductive urges: literacy, sexuality, and eighteenth-century Englishness / Anita Levy -- Infanticide and the boundaries of culture from Hume to Arnold / Josephine McDonagh -- "Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones": infanticide in Cooper's The last of the Mohicans / Mary Chapman -- Reforming the body: "Experience" and the architecture of imagination in Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the life of a slave girl / Ann Gelder.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Making up for losses: the workings of gender in William Harvey's de Generatione animalium / Eve Keller -- "Such is my bond": maternity and economy in Anne Bradstreet's writing / Kimberly Latta -- Aborting the "Mother plot": politics and generation in Absalom and Achitophel / Susan C. Greenfield -- The pregnant imagination, women's bodies, and fetal rights / Julia Epstein -- "A point of conscience": breastfeeding and maternal authority in Pamela, part 2 / Toni Bowers -- Mary Wollstonecraft: styles of radical maternity / Claudia L. Johnson -- Maria Edgeworth and the politics of consumption: eating, breastfeeding, and the Irish wet nurse in Ennue / Julie Costello -- Reproductive urges: literacy, sexuality, and eighteenth-century Englishness / Anita Levy -- Infanticide and the boundaries of culture from Hume to Arnold / Josephine McDonagh -- "Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones": infanticide in Cooper's The last of the Mohicans / Mary Chapman -- Reforming the body: "Experience" and the architecture of imagination in Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the life of a slave girl / Ann Gelder.

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