A child of one's own : parental stories / by Bowlby, Rachel, 1957-

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'.…”

Child of one's own : parental stories / by Bowlby, Rachel, 1957-

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'.…”
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