Inventing maternity politics, science, and literature, 1650-1865 / edited by Susan C. Greenfield and Carol Barash.

Other author Greenfield, Susan C.
Other author Barash, Carol.
Format Book
Publication InfoLexington : University Press of Kentucky, ©1999.
Descriptionviii, 274 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects
Motherhood--History.
Motherhood in literature--History.
Motherhood--Political aspects. --History.

Contents Making up for losses: the workings of gender in William Harvey's de Generatione animalium / Eve Keller -- "Such is my bond": maternity and economy in Anne Bradstreet's writing / Kimberly Latta -- Aborting the "Mother plot": politics and generation in Absalom and Achitophel / Susan C. Greenfield -- The pregnant imagination, women's bodies, and fetal rights / Julia Epstein -- "A point of conscience": breastfeeding and maternal authority in Pamela, part 2 / Toni Bowers -- Mary Wollstonecraft: styles of radical maternity / Claudia L. Johnson -- Maria Edgeworth and the politics of consumption: eating, breastfeeding, and the Irish wet nurse in Ennue / Julie Costello -- Reproductive urges: literacy, sexuality, and eighteenth-century Englishness / Anita Levy -- Infanticide and the boundaries of culture from Hume to Arnold / Josephine McDonagh -- "Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones": infanticide in Cooper's The last of the Mohicans / Mary Chapman -- Reforming the body: "Experience" and the architecture of imagination in Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the life of a slave girl / Ann Gelder.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 98044190
ISBN0813120780 (cloth : alk. paper)