A child of one's own : parental stories

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A child of one's own : parental stories

Rachel Bowlby

Oxford University Press, 2015

  • : pbk.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-242) and index

"First published 2013"--T.p.verso

Contents of Works

  • Changing conceptions
  • Surrogates and other mothers
  • Reproductive choice : a prehistory
  • Foundling fathers and mothers
  • Childlessness : Euripides' Medea
  • A tale of two parents : Charles Dickens's Great expectations
  • Finding a life : George Eliot's Silas Marner
  • His and hers : Henry Fielding's Tom Jones
  • Placement : Jane Austen's Mansfield Park
  • At all costs : George Moore's Esther Waters
  • Between parents : Henry James's What Maisie knew
  • Parental secrets in Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge
  • 'I had Barbara' : women's ties and Edith Wharton's 'Roman fever'

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