Tell your friends about this item:
Negotiating Motherhood in Nineteenth-Century American Literature - Studies in American Popular History and Culture Wearn, Mary McCartin (Macon State College, USA) 1st edition
Negotiating Motherhood in Nineteenth-Century American Literature - Studies in American Popular History and Culture
Wearn, Mary McCartin (Macon State College, USA)
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.
178 pages
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | August 10, 2007 |
| ISBN13 | 9780415981040 |
| Publishers | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Pages | 178 |
| Dimensions | 150 × 220 × 20 mm · 490 g |
| Language | English |