Negotiating motherhood in nineteenth-century American literature
By: Mary McCartin Wearn
Series: Studies in American popular history and culture; American popular history and culture (Routledge (Firm))
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 167
ISBN-13: 9780415981040
Subjects: American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Motherhood in literature; Mothers in literature; Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 149-157) and index
Table of contents: title: "Stronger than all was maternal love": maternal idealism in Uncle Tom's cabin; title: No more "the pillow of affection": deconstructing the "softening influence" of motherhood in The Scarlet Letter; title: "Links... of gold": the bonds of motherhood in Incidents in the life of a slave girl; title: "She has been burning palaces": the maternal poetics of Sarah Piatt