1st Edition
The Maternal Voice in Victorian Fiction Rewriting the Patriarchal Family
By Barbara Z. Thaden
Copyright 1997
176 Pages
by
Routledge
176 Pages
by
Routledge
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This is the first full-length study to focus specifically on representations of motherhood in fiction by such Victorian writers as Elizabeth Gaskell, Margaret Oliphant, Caroline Norton, and Ellen Price Wood. These authors presented an idealized view of motherhood as part of a campaign to gain social and legal status for mothering in a society in which married women were not legal entities and... Read more
Introduction; Chapter 1 The Dead Mother; Chapter 2 God the Mother; Chapter 3 The Maternal Circle; Chapter 4 Der Familienroman der Mutter; Conclusion;
Biography
Barbara Z. Thaden
"The research is thorough so graduate students and researchers in literature or women's studies may take it off the shelf." -- Choice
