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Negotiating Motherhood in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

Negotiating Motherhood in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

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Series: Studies in American Popular History and Culture

Literary CriticismGeneral United States History

ISBN10: 0415541808
ISBN13: 9780415541800
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Feb 27 2012
Pages: 218
Weight: 0.57
Height: 0.38 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
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.

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