Mothering daughters : novels and the politics of family romance : Frances Burney to Jane Austen
The rise of the novel and of the ideal nuclear family was no coincidence, the author argues in this look at the construction of modern maternity. She offers a cultural context in which to read various works of early women novelists, while placing the concept of motherhood in a historical framework.
Print Book, English, ©2002
Wayne State University Press, Detroit, ©2002
Criticism, interpretation, etc
227 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780814329924, 9780814332016, 0814329926, 0814332013
47785542
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