Negotiating Motherhood in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

Negotiating Motherhood in Nineteenth-Century American Literature Wearn Mary McCartin Wydawca: Taylor & Francis Ltd Data wydania: 2012 ISBN: 9780415541800 Liczba stron: 218 Format: 234 x 156 Rodzaj oprawy: Paperback / softback Opis produktu: By examining maternal figures in the works of diverse authors such as Harriet Beecher Stowe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, and Sarah Piatt, this book exposes the contentious but fruitful negotiations that took place in the heart of the American sentimental era - negotiations about the cultural meanings of family, womanhood, and motherhood.