UID:
edocfu_9959235939102883
Format:
1 online resource (176 p.)
ISBN:
0-585-00110-3
Content:
"In this physically small but conceptually rich volume, Cherniavsky begins by situating the notion of essentialized motherhood within the constitution of modern bourgeois subjectivity and, more specifically, of a rational democratic social order in early national America." --American Literature"... an admirable contribution to the current debates over the meaning and implications of motherhood in contemporary culture." --UCG Women's Studies Centre Review"With its wide range of reference and use of sophisticated critical paradigms, this book is a demanding study that will be of special interest to readers concerned with 19th century American fiction and current debates surrounding the maternal." --Studies on Women AbstractsThat Pale Mother Rising concerns the persistence of essentialized motherhood in the midst of the postmodern, linking nineteenth-century sentimentalism to the American founders' understanding of the democratic social body.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-253-20934-X
Language:
English
