Child of One's Own : Parental Stories.
A fascinating study examining the diversities and novelties of contemporary parenthood in the light of a range of literary and philosophical works ranging from Greek tragedies to contemporary psychoanalytic theory by way of diverse writers from the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
Oxford Scholarship Online,
2013.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- Changing conceptions
- Surrogates and other mothers
- Reproductive choice : a prehistory
- Foundling fathers and mothers
- Childlessness : Euripides' Medea
- A tale of two parents : Charles Dickens's Great expectations
- Finding a life : George Eliot's Silas Marner
- His and hers : Henry Fielding's Tom Jones
- Placement : Jane Austen's Mansfield Park
- At all costs : George Moore's Esther Waters
- Between parents : Henry James's What Maisie knew
- Parental secrets in Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge
- 'I had Barbara' : women's ties and Edith Wharton's 'Roman fever'.