Writing maternity : medicine, anxiety, rhetoric, and genre /

Traces the rhetorical origins of maternal anxiety in Victorian literature-bringing concepts such as uptake and genre ecology into literary studies from rhetorical genre theory, by examining advice literature, British life writing, and novels by Charles Dickens, Charlotte Mary Yonge, Elizabeth Gaskel...

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Main Author:	Regaignon, Dara Rossman (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Columbus : Ohio State University Press, [2021]
Subjects:	Motherhood in literature. Anxiety in women. Child rearing in literature. English literature > 19th century > History and criticism. Children > Great Britain > Social conditions.

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Summary:	Traces the rhetorical origins of maternal anxiety in Victorian literature-bringing concepts such as uptake and genre ecology into literary studies from rhetorical genre theory, by examining advice literature, British life writing, and novels by Charles Dickens, Charlotte Mary Yonge, Elizabeth Gaskell, Charlotte Brontë and Anne Brontë.
Physical Description:	xvi, 186 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-178) and index.
ISBN:	9780814214695 081421469X