Romanticism, Maternity, and the Body Politic (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: April 23, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780521036269
Subjects: Literary studies: general; Social Science; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Sociology; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Gender Studies; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Social Science / Gender Studies; Social Science : Gender Studies
First sentence: Over a decade before the publication of Emile (1762), a text which played a foundational role in late-eighteenth-century debates about child care practices and spurred a "fundamental transformation in the attitude of parents to children," Jean-Jacques Rousseau deposited each of his five children by Therese Levasseur in a foundling's home, apparently against their mother's wishes.