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The Politics of Motherhood: British Writing and Culture, 1680–1760

Autor Toni Bowers
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 25 sep 2005
Through detailed examination of a wide variety of novels, plays, sermons, songs, popular engravings, portraiture, and propaganda from the period, Toni Bowers examines the eighteenth-century struggle to develop new ideals for virtuous womanhood. She shows how popular representations of mothers codified and enforced a model of motherhood naturally and inevitably, removed from participation in the public world, and presented other ideals as monstrous. At the same time, she points out, some of the most influential texts resisted the newly reduced vision of maternal excellence by imagining alternatives to domesticity and dependence. Addressing broader social and cultural issues, and drawing radical comparisons between past and present, Bowers argues that Western culture continues to be limited by its commitment to the contradictory maternal ideals established in eighteenth-century discourse.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780521020336
ISBN-10: 0521020336
Pagini: 280
Ilustrații: 13 b/w illus.
Dimensiuni: 155 x 233 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.4 kg
Ediția:Revised
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Colecția Cambridge University Press
Locul publicării:Cambridge, United Kingdom

Cuprins

Introduction: historicising motherhood; Part I. Royal Motherhood: Queen Anne and the Politics of Maternal Representation: 1. 'The teeming Princess of Denmark': Anne as mother, 1684–1700; 2. 'Thy nursing mother': symbolic maternity and royal authority at the coronation of Queen Anne; 3. Symbolic maternity and practical politics in Queen Anne's England; Part II. Monstrous Motherhood: Violence, Difference, and the Subversion of Maternal Ideals: 4. 'Unnatural' motherhood in two novels by Daniel Defoe; 5. Dreams of maternal autonomy: scandalous motherhood in three tales by Eliza Haywood; 6. Maternal failure and socio-economic difference: the unnatural mother; Part III. Domestic Motherhood: Constraint, Complicity, and the Failure of Maternal Authority: 7. Female virtue and maternal authority in Pamela, Part 2; 8. Maternal virtue and maternal failure in Clarissa; Conclusion: going public: the case of Lady Sarah Pennington; Appendix.

Descriere

An examination of the eighteenth-century social and cultural struggle to develop new ideas for virtuous motherhood.