A child of one's own : parental stories /
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2013.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Changing conceptions
- Surrogates and other mothers
- Reproductive choice: a prehistory
- Foundling fathers and mothers
- Childlessness: Euripides' Medea
- A tale of two parents: Charles Dickens's Great Expectations
- Finding a life: George Eliot's Silas Marner
- His and hers: Henry Fielding's Tom Jones
- Placement: Jane Austen's Mansfield Park
- At all costs: George Moore's Esther Waters
- Between parents: Henry James's What Maisie Knew
- Parental secrets in Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge
- 'I had Barbara': women's ties and Edith Wharton's 'Roman Fever'.
