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PublisherCambridge University Press

ISBN-100521814553

ISBN-139780521814553

eBay Product ID (ePID)2365529

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Number of Pages258 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameRomanticism, Maternity, and the Body Politic

Publication Year2003

SubjectSubjects & Themes / Women, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Subjects & Themes / General

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaLiterary Criticism

AuthorJulie Kipp

SeriesCambridge Studies in Romanticism Ser.

FormatHardcover

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Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight19.4 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2002-034939

Dewey Edition21

Reviews"...this book contributes importantly both to the scholarship of motherhood and of nation-making." Studies in Romanticism, "Kipp offers sophisticated and nuanced readings of Gothic mothers and their frequently monstrous sympathies, of the figure of the Irish wet nurse, and of maternal sympathy in relation to ^The Cenci, in a densely argued demonstration of quite how socially and culturally constructed the concept of motherhood is in this period." Kate Flint, Studies in English Literature

Series Volume NumberSeries Number 57

Dewey Decimal820.9/355

Table Of ContentAcknowledgements; Introduction: naturally bad or dangerously good: romantic-period mothers 'on trial'; 1. Revolutions in mothering: theory and practice; 2. A love too thick: gothic mothers and monstrous sympathies; 3. The Irish wet nurse: Edgeworth's Ennui; 4. Infanticide in an age of enlightenment: Scott's The Heart of Midlothian; 5. The case of the Shelleys: maternal sympathy and The Cenci; Postscript; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

SynopsisJulie Kipp examines Romantic writers' treatments of motherhood and maternal bodies through the lens of the legal, medical, educational, and socioeconomic debates about motherhood so prevalent during the Romantic period. These discussions rendered the physical processes associated with mothering matters of national importance. Kipp's primary concern is to trace ways that writers deployed representations of mother-child bonds variously as a means to naturalize, endorse, and critique Enlightenment constructions of interpersonal and intercultural relations., In Romanticism, Maternity, and the Body Politic, Julie Kipp examines Romantic writers' treatments of motherhood and maternal bodies in the context of the legal, medical, educational and socioeconomic debates about motherhood so popular during the period. She argues that these discussions turned the physical processes associated with mothering into matters of national importance. The privately shared space signified by the womb or the maternal breast were made public by the widespread interest in the workings of the maternal body. These private spaces evidenced for writers of the period the radical exposure of mother and child to one another - for good or ill. Kipp's primary concern is to underline the ways that writers used representations of mother-child bonds as ways of naturalizing, endorsing and critiquing Enlightenment constructions of interpersonal and intercultural relations. This fascinating literary and cultural study will appeal to all scholars of Romanticism., Julie Kipp examines Romantic writers' treatments of motherhood and maternal bodies in the context of the legal, medical, educational and socioeconomic debates about motherhood so popular during the period. She argues that these discussions turned the physical processes associated with mothering into matters of national importance.

LC Classification NumberPR468.M596 K57 2003