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A child of one's own : parental stories

Title
A child of one's own : parental stories / Rachel Bowlby.
Author
Bowlby, Rachel, 1957-
Publication
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.

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Book/TextUse in library JFD 14-38Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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Description
248 p.; 21 cm
Subject
  • Parenthood
  • Parenthood > History
  • Parenthood in literature
  • English fiction > History and criticism
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-242) and index.
Contents
Changing conceptions -- Surrogates and other mothers -- Reproductive choice: a prehistory -- Foundling fathers and mothers -- Childlessness: Euripides' Medea -- A tale of two parents: Charles Dickens's Great Expectations -- Finding a life: George Eliot's Silas Marner -- His and hers: Henry Fielding's Tom Jones -- Placement: Jane Austen's Mansfield Park -- At all costs: George Moore's Esther Waters -- Between parents: Henry James's What Maisie Knew -- Parental secrets in Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge -- 'I had Barbara': women's ties and Edith Wharton's 'Roman Fever'.
Call Number
JFD 14-38
ISBN
  • 019960794X
  • 9780199607945
OCLC
815382779
Author
Bowlby, Rachel, 1957-
Title
A child of one's own : parental stories / Rachel Bowlby.
Imprint
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.
Edition
1st ed.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-242) and index.
Research Call Number
JFD 14-38
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