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Negotiating Motherhood in Nineteenth-Century American Literature (Hardcover)
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Negotiating Motherhood in Nineteenth-Century American Literature (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in American Popular History and Culture
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Returning to a foundational moment in the history of the American
family, Negotiating Motherhood in Nineteenth-Century American
Literature explores how various authors of the period represented
the maternal role - an office that came to a new, social prominence
at the end of the eighteenth century. 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. This book, then, challenges critical constructions that
figure American sentimentalism as a coherent, monolithic project,
tied strictly to the forces of cultural conservatism. Furthermore,
by exploring nineteenth-century challenges to conventional maternal
ideology and by exposing gaps in the mythology of "ideal"
motherhood, Negotiating Motherhood demonstrates that the icon of an
American Madonna - a figure that still haunts America's imagination
- never had an uncontested reign. Transcending the boundaries of
literary criticism, this work will be useful to feminist scholars
and to those who are interested in the history of women's culture,
the American mythology of family life, or the cultural construction
of motherhood.
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