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A Child of One's Own Rachel Bowlby (Professor of Comparative Literature, Professor of Comparative Literature, Princeton University)

A Child of One's Own par Rachel Bowlby (Professor of Comparative Literature, Professor of Comparative Literature, Princeton University)

A Child of One's Own Rachel Bowlby (Professor of Comparative Literature, Professor of Comparative Literature, Princeton University)

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A fascinating study examining the diversities and novelties of contemporary parenthood in the light of a range of literary and philosophical works ranging from Greek tragedies to contemporary psychoanalytic theory by way of diverse writers from the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries.

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A Child of One's Own: Parental Stories Rachel Bowlby (Professor of Comparative Literature, Professor of Comparative Literature, Princeton University)

Among the elementary human stories, parenthood has tended to go without saying. Compared to the spectacular attachments of romantic love, it is only the predictable sequel. Compared to the passions of childhood, it is just a background. But in recent decades, far-reaching changes in typical family forms and in procreative possibilities (through reproductive technologies) have brought out new questions. Why do people want (or not want) to be parents? How has the 'choice' first enabled by contraception changed the meaning of parenthood? Looking not only at new parental parts but at older parental stories, in novels and other works, this fascinating book offers fresh angles and arguments for thinking about parenthood today.

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Bowlby's project is a worthy endeavour * Natalie McKnight, Dickensian Quarterly *
...fluid and engaging... * Terri Apter, Times Literary Supplement *
Here Bowlby's widely celebrated talent as a literary critic is demonstrated to quite spectacular effect. Literary critics - academics in general - are permanently aware of the pressure to make their work relevant, and in less skilled hands the parts of this book concerned with contemporary culture might have appeared worlds away from Jane Austen and Charles Dickens. This book, however, is an instance of genuine dialogue between the contemporary and the historical ... an extraordinary level of insight. * Bryony Randall, Times Higher Education *
[Rachel Bowlby] finds some intriguing antecedents to our world of surrogacy, fertility treatment and adoption (and, brilliantly, in the case of Mary, mother of Jesus, to artificial insemination) in plot twists that are, in essence, novelists' decisions to rupture reality so as better to make it serve their specific emotional, psychological and artistic needs. * Rachel Cusk, New Statesman *
This book will undoubtably be worth reading both by those who wish to explore the controversial issues arising from new reproductive technologies, and by those whose interests are literary and who would appreciate the detailed examination of classic texts. * Alison Carter, Solas *

À propos de Rachel Bowlby (Professor of Comparative Literature, Professor of Comparative Literature, Princeton University)

Rachel Bowlby is Professor of Comparative Literature at Princeton University. Her previous books include Just Looking and Carried Away, both about the history of shopping; Still Crazy After All These Years: Women, Writing and Psychoanalysis; Shopping with Freud; Feminist Destinations and Further Essays on Virginia Woolf; and Freudian Mythologies: Greek Tragedy and Modern Identities.

Sommaire

Introduction ; 1. Changing Conceptions ; 2. Surrogates and Other Mothers ; 3. Reproductive Choice: A Prehistory ; 4. Foundling Fathers and Mothers ; 5. Childlessness: Euripides' Medea ; 6. A Tale of Two Parents: Charles Dickens's Great Expectations ; 7. Finding a Life: George Eliot's Silas Marner ; 8. His and Hers: Henry Fielding's Tom Jones ; 9. Placement: Jane Austen's Mansfield Park ; 10. At All Costs: George Moore's Esther Waters ; 11. Between Parents: Henry James's What Maisie Knew ; 12. Parental Secrets in Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge ; 13. 'I Had Barbara': Women's Ties and Edith Wharton's 'Roman Fever' ; Afterword

Informations supplémentaires

GOR013120650
9780199607945
019960794X
A Child of One's Own: Parental Stories Rachel Bowlby (Professor of Comparative Literature, Professor of Comparative Literature, Princeton University)
Rachel Bowlby (Professor of Comparative Literature, Professor of Comparative Literature, Princeton University)
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Oxford University Press
20130627
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