Negotiating Motherhood in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

Mary McCartin (Macon State College, USA) Wearn

Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2007

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By examining maternal figures in the works of diverse authors such as Harriet Beecher Stowe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, and Sarah Piatt, this book exposes the contentious but fruitful negotiations that took place in the heart of the American sentimental era - negotiations about the cultural meanings of family, womanhood, and motherhood.

ISBN-13
9780415981040
ISBN-10
0415981042
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Year
2007
Publication date
2007-08-10
Pages
178
Dimensions
229x152x
Weight
490