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.

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