Romanticism, Maternity, and the Body Politic (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521036269)

Julie Kipp examines Romantic writers' treatments of motherhood and maternal bodies through the lens of the legal, medical, educational, and socioeconomic debates about motherhood so prevalent during the Romantic period. These discussions rendered the physical processes associated with mothering matters of national importance. Kipp's primary concern is to trace ways that writers deployed representations of mother-child bonds variously as a means to naturalize, endorse, and critique Enlightenment constructions of interpersonal and intercultural relations.

Author: Julie Kipp
ISBN-10: 0521036267
ISBN-13: 9780521036269
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 04/23/2007
Pages: 260
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.59d