Title Romanticism, maternity, and the body politic / Julie Kipp

Published Cambridge, England ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 237 pages) Series Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 57 Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 57. Contents Introduction: naturally bad or dangerously good: Romantic-period mothers 'on trial' -- Revolutions in mothering: theory and practice -- A love too thick: gothic mothers and monstrous sympathies -- The Irish wet nurse: Edgeworth's Ennui -- Infanticide in an age of enlightenment: Scott's The Heart of Midlothian -- The case of the Shelleys: maternal sympathy and The Cenci post script Summary Julie Kipp examines Romantic writers' treatments of motherhood and maternal bodies in the context of the legal, medical, educational, and socioeconomic debates about motherhood so popular during the period. She argues that these discussions turned the physical processes associated with mothering into matters of national importance Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-231) and index Notes Print version record Subject English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism Mother and child in literature. Romanticism -- Great Britain Human body in literature. Motherhood in literature. Childbirth in literature. Mothers in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. Childbirth in literature English literature Human body in literature Mother and child in literature Motherhood in literature Mothers in literature Romanticism Great Britain Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 0511064934 9780511064937 0511120591 9780511120596 0511073399 9780511073397 9780521814553 0521814553 9780521036269 0521036267 9780511306068 0511306067 9780511484346 0511484348

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