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9780199607945

A Child of One's Own Parental Stories

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  • ISBN13:

    9780199607945

  • ISBN10:

    019960794X

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2013-07-18
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Author Biography


Rachel Bowlby is Northcliffe Professor of English at University College London. Her previous books include Just Looking and Carried Away, both about the history of shopping; Still Crazy After All These Years: Women, Writing and Psychoanalysis; Shopping with Freud; Feminist Destinations and Further Essays on Virginia Woolf; and Freudian Mythologies: Greek Tragedy and Modern Identities.

Table of Contents


Introduction
1. Changing Conceptions
2. Surrogates and Other Mothers
3. Reproductive Choice: A Prehistory
4. Foundling Fathers and Mothers
5. Childlessness: Euripides' Medea
6. A Tale of Two Parents: Charles Dickens's Great Expectations
7. Finding a Life: George Eliot's Silas Marner
8. His and Hers: Henry Fielding's Tom Jones
9. Placement: Jane Austen's Mansfield Park
10. At All Costs: George Moore's Esther Waters
11. Between Parents: Henry James's What Maisie Knew
12. Parental Secrets in Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge
13. 'I Had Barbara': Women's Ties and Edith Wharton's 'Roman Fever'
Afterword

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