Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to The Body in Literature
- The Cambridge Companion to the Body in Literature
- The Body in Literature
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Book part
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Medieval Somatics
- 3 Disability
- 4 Staging Early Modern Embodiment
- 5 Eating, Obesity and Literature
- 6 Language and the Body
- 7 The Maternal Body
- 8 Literary Sexualities
- 9 The Body, Pain and Violence
- 10 The Ageing Body
- 11 Representing Dead and Dying Bodies
- 12 The Racialized Body
- 13 Literature, Technology and the Senses
- 14 Literature and Neurology
- 15 Psychoanalytic Bodies
- 16 Literature and Affect
- 17 Posthuman Bodies
- Index
- Cambridge Companions to…
- References
7 - The Maternal Body
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Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to The Body in Literature
- The Cambridge Companion to the Body in Literature
- The Body in Literature
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Book part
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Medieval Somatics
- 3 Disability
- 4 Staging Early Modern Embodiment
- 5 Eating, Obesity and Literature
- 6 Language and the Body
- 7 The Maternal Body
- 8 Literary Sexualities
- 9 The Body, Pain and Violence
- 10 The Ageing Body
- 11 Representing Dead and Dying Bodies
- 12 The Racialized Body
- 13 Literature, Technology and the Senses
- 14 Literature and Neurology
- 15 Psychoanalytic Bodies
- 16 Literature and Affect
- 17 Posthuman Bodies
- Index
- Cambridge Companions to…
- References
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- The Cambridge Companion to the Body in Literature , pp. 87 - 100Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2015
References
Further Reading
Baraitser, Lisa. Maternal Encounters: The Ethics of Interruption (London and New York: Routledge, 2009).Google Scholar
Betterton, Rosemary. Maternal Bodies in the Visual Arts (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2014).Google Scholar
Bowlby, Rachel. A Child of One’s Own: Parental Stories (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Francis, Marilyn. Monstrous Motherhood: Eighteenth-Century Culture and the Ideology of Domesticity (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012).Google Scholar
Hanson, Clare. A Cultural History of Pregnancy: Pregnancy, Medicine and Culture, 1750–2000 (Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Kipp, Julie. Romanticism, Maternity and the Body Politic (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Kristeva, Julia. Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection (Chichester and New York: Columbia University Press, 1984).Google Scholar
Kristeva, JuliaHatred and Forgiveness (New York and Chichester: Columbia University Press, 2012).Google Scholar
Kukla, Rebecca. Mass Hysteria: Medicine, Culture and Mothers’ Bodies (Lanham, MD: Roman and Littlefield Publishers, 2005).Google Scholar
Marland, Hilary. Dangerous Motherhood: Insanity and Childbirth in Victorian Britain (Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Mazzoni, Christina. Maternal Impressions: Pregnancy and Childbirth in Literature and Theory (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2002).Google Scholar
Rosenman, Ellen Bayuk and Klaver, Claudia C., eds. Other Mothers: Beyond the Maternal Ideal (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2008).Google Scholar
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