Writing Maternity: Medicine, Anxiety, Rhetoric, and Genre
View/ Open
Subjects (LCSH):
Motherhood in literatureAnxiety in women
Child rearing in literature
English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
Children -- Great Britain -- Social conditions
Keywords:
Language Arts & Disciplines / RhetoricLiterary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Literary Criticism / Semiotics & Theory
Literary Criticism / Women Authors
Issue Date:
2021Metadata
Show full item recordPublisher:
The Ohio State University PressContents:
Preface: Historicizing maternal anxiety -- The rhetorical origins of maternal anxiety -- Of mothers and medical men: advice as genre -- Probability and premature death: child mortality, prolepsis, and the serial novel -- Supervisory attention and maternal management: paralipsis, paid childcare, and novelistic perspective -- Godfrey's Cordial and an opium pill: empire, family, and maternal attention -- Coda: Genre as advice.
Embargo:
Item embargoed for five years
Type:
BookISBN:
9780814214695 (print)Rights:
Copyright © 2021 by The Ohio State University. All rights reserved.Collections
Items in Knowledge Bank are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.