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Writing Maternity

by Dara Rossman Regaignon

"Traces the rhetorical origins of maternal anxiety in Victorian literature-bringing concepts such as uptake and genre ecology into literary studies from rhetorical genre theory-by examining advice literature, British life writing, and novels by Charles Dickens, Charlotte Mary Yonge, Elizabeth Gaskell, Charlotte Brontë, and Anne Brontë"--