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