Conceived by liberty : maternal figures and nineteeth-century American literature
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Conceived by liberty : maternal figures and nineteeth-century American literature
（Reading women writing / a series edited by Shari Benstock and Celeste Schenck）
Cornell University Press, 1994
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-237) and index
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"A mother is, next to God, all powerful," The Public Ledger asserted in 1850. Looking at complex representations of maternity in sentimental fiction, in texts treating the problem of slavery, and in selected canonical literature, Stephanie A. Smith traces the career of an ideology of sanctified maternity in antebellum American culture.
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