That pale mother rising : sentimental discourses and the imitation of motherhood in 19th-century America /
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| Author / Creator: | Cherniavsky, Eva, 1960- |
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| Imprint: | Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c1995. |
| Description: | xiii, 156 p. ; 21 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1734070 |
| Summary: | Concerns the persistence of essentialized motherhood in the midst of the postmodern, linking nineteenth-century sentimentalism to the American founders' understanding of the democratic social body. This book explores how essential motherhood paradoxically resolves into oppositional imitation. |
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| Physical Description: | xiii, 156 p. ; 21 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0253313430 025320934X |