Pregnancy and the Novel

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Representation and Concealment from Richardson to Hardy

ISBN: 1137276452
ISBN 13: 9781137276452
Autor: Brain, Tracy
Verlag: Springer Verlag GmbH
Umfang: 272 S., Approx. 270 p.
Erscheinungsdatum: 11.02.2025
Auflage: 1/2025
Produktform: Gebunden/Hardback
Einband: GEB

Explores why some canonical 18th- and 19th-century novelists avoided writing about pregnancy and birthExamines how the new science of obstetrics affected literary formEngages with a range of canonical novels alongside a diverse range of 18th- and 19th- century medical textsThis book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access.

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Beschreibung

Pregnancy and the Novel is a study of covert representations of pregnancy and birth in canonical eighteenth- and nineteenth-century novels. The research draws on medical texts to illuminate the ways that novelists simultaneously hide and reveal problematic pregnancies and births. Grounded in narrative theory and historicism, it reveals a reciprocal influence between literature and science through the novels of Samuel Richardson, the Brontës, George Eliot, Dickens and Hardy. This project is an act of literary detective work that will uncover what can easily be missed by twenty-first century readers, bringing it into light by reconstructing historical knowledge of reproductive medicine.This is an open access book.

Autorenporträt

Tracy Brain is Professor of Creative Writing and English Literature at Bath Spa University, UK.

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