Mothering Daughters: Novels and the Politics of Family Romance, Frances Burney to Jane Austen

by Susan C. Greenfield

Overview

The rise of the novel and of the ideal nuclear family was no mere coincidence, argues Susan C. Greenfield in this fascinating look at the construction of modern maternity.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780814338285
Publisher:	Wayne State University Press
Publication date:	07/09/2003
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	232
File size:	925 KB

About the Author

Susan C. Greenfield is an associate professor of English at Fordham University.

Editorial Reviews

Susan Greenfield's Mothering Daughters: Novels and the Politics of Family Romance from Frances Burney to Jane Austen is a smart, well-written, psychoanalytic reading of late-eighteenth-century British novels by women. Greenfield's readings of these novels are uniformly excellent, and her arguments regarding the importance of maternity in the period and the ideological range of maternal representation are compelling."

Eighteenth Century Current Bibliography

Susan Greenfield offers illuminating interpretations of Evelina, The Italian, Wrongs of Woman, Belinda, Adeline Mowbray, and Emma...Underpinning Greenfield's compelling analysis is a wealth of careful research. Her three approaches-historical, literary, and psychoanalytic-will appeal to scholars in a variety of disciplines.

Journal of the Association for Research on Mothering - Bonnie A. Nelson