Mothering daughters : novels and the politics of family romance : Frances Burney to Jane Austen / Susan C. Greenfield
- Author:
- Greenfield, Susan C.
- Published:
- Detroit : Wayne State University Press, [2002]
- Copyright Date:
- ©2002
- Physical Description:
- 227 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Contents:
- "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.
- Subject(s):
- 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
- ISBN:
- 0814329926 (cloth, alk. paper)
- Bibliography Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-216) and index.
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