Maternal Modernism: Narrating New Mothers

by Elizabeth Podnieks

Book Overview

Drawing on the figure and discourses of the Victorian fin-de-si cle New Woman, this book examines women writers who struggled with conservative, patriarchal ideologies of motherhood in novels, periodicals and life writings of the long modernist period. It shows how these writers challenged, resisted, adapted and negotiated traditional ideas with their own versions of new motherhood, with needs for identities and experiences beyond maternity...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3031089138
• ISBN13: 9783031089138
• Release Date: December 2023
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 330 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.3"