Reproduction and the maternal body in literature and culture : bodies of knowledge, 1726-1818 / Jennifer S. Henke.
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9781003467977 ebook
1003467970
1040358578 (electronic bk.)
9781040358573 (electronic bk.)
9781040358627 (electronic bk. : EPUB)
1040358624 (electronic bk. : EPUB)
9781032741703 hardback
9781032742229 paperback
1003467970
1040358578 (electronic bk.)
9781040358573 (electronic bk.)
9781040358627 (electronic bk. : EPUB)
1040358624 (electronic bk. : EPUB)
9781032741703 hardback
9781032742229 paperback
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Yayın Bilgisi
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2025.
Fiziksel Niteleme
1 online resource
İçindekiler Notu
Introduction : in the delivery room -- Context : historicising the reproductive body -- Framework : beyond representationalism -- Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's travels (1726) -- John Cleland's Fanny Hill (1749) -- Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy (1759) -- Eliza Fenwick's Secresy, or : the ruin on the rock (1795) -- Mary Wollstonecraft's Maria, or : the wrongs of woman (1798) -- Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, or : the modern Prometheus (1818) -- Stitching.
Özet, vb.
This book examines a selection of texts to discuss how midwifery, obstetrics and women's bodies were constructed during the (long) eighteenth century, and how these material-discursive entanglements between science, medicine, literature and culture have shaped society's views of pregnancy, childbirth and reproduction.Drawing on theories from disciplines such as feminist new materialism, this book traces the history of both the reproductive body and the Pluralistic medical knowledges that attended to pregnancy and childbirth during the Enlightenment and early Romanticism in Britain. It identifies the significance of literary and cultural artefacts in this knowledge formation, including the materiality of the female reproductive body itself, and raises awareness of myths about pregnancy and childbirth that persist today. This book features chapters exploring Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, John Cleland's Fanny Hill, Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy, Eliza Fenwick's Secresy, Or: The Ruin on the Rock, Mary Wollstonecraft's Maria, Or: The Wrongs of Woman, and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.Reproduction and the Maternal Body in Literature and Culture is an innovative and interdisciplinary contribution to the medical humanities and feminist philosophy of science and will interest scholars from a range of backgrounds, including literature and cultural studies, midwifery, medicine and history.
Konu
English literature __ 18th century __ History and criticism.
English literature __ 19th century __ History and criticism.
Pregnancy in literature.
Pregnancy in popular culture.
Childbirth in literature.
Mothers in literature.
English literature __ 19th century __ History and criticism.
Pregnancy in literature.
Pregnancy in popular culture.
Childbirth in literature.
Mothers in literature.
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