Mothering daughters
Subtitle: novels and the politics of family romance : Frances Burney to Jane Austen
By: Susan C. Greenfield.
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Detroit
Language: eng
Number of pages: 227
Subjects: English fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism; Mothers and daughters in literature; Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century; Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century; English fiction -- 18th century -- History and criticism; English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Feminist fiction, English -- History and criticism; Domestic fiction, English -- History and criticism; Motherhood in literature; Mothers in literature; Family in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-216) and index.
Table of contents: title: "The lovely resemblance of her lovely mother": Evelina and later novels; title: Gothic mothers and homoerotic desire: incestuous longing in the Italian; title: The maternal bosom: sexual difference and custody in the wrongs of woman; or, Maria; title: The maternal bosom: sexual and colonial difference in Belinda; title: Mother, daughter, and mulatto: women's exchange in Adeline Mowbray; title: The riddle of Emma: maternity and the unconscious.