Pregnancy and the Novel

Representation and Concealment from Richardson to Hardy

Tracy Brain author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan

Publishing:15th May '25

£90.00

This title is due to be published on 15th May, and will be despatched as soon as possible.

Pregnancy and the Novel cover

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.