Pregnancy and the Novel
Representation and Concealment from Richardson to Hardy
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan
Publishing:12th Jun '25
£90.00
This title is due to be published on 12th June, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
Pregnancy and the Novel is a study of covert representations of pregnancy and birth in canonical eighteenth- and nineteenth-century novels. The researchdraws on medical texts to illuminate the ways that novelists simultaneously hide and reveal problematic pregnancies and births. Grounded in narrative theory and historicism, it reveals a reciprocal influence between literature and science through the novels of Samuel Richardson, the Brontës, George Eliot, Dickens and Hardy. This project is an act of literary detective work that will uncover what can easily be missed by twenty-first century readers, bringing it into light by reconstructing historical knowledge of reproductive medicine.
This is an open access book.
ISBN: 9781137276452
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: unknown
272 pages
2025 ed.