The Politics of Motherhood: British Writing and Culture, 1680-1760
- ISBN-10
- 0521551749
- ISBN-13
- 9780521551748
- Category
- Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Pages
- 262
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1996-07-13
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Author
- Toni Bowers
Description
Through detailed examination of a wide variety of novels, plays, sermons, songs, popular engravings, portraiture, and propaganda from the period, Toni Bowers examines the eighteenth-century social and cultural struggle to develop new ideals for virtuous motherhood. She shows how popular representations of mothers codified and enforced a private and domestic model of maternal excellence, and argues that contemporary Western culture is still limited by its commitment to the contradictory maternal ideals established in early-eighteenth-century discourse.
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