Brain, T (2025) Pregnancy and the novel: representation and concealment from Richardson to Hardy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. ISBN 9781137276452 (Forthcoming)
Abstract
This book is a study of covert representations of pregnancy and birth in canonical eighteenth- and nineteenth-century novels. The research draws 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.
| Item Type: | Book |
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| Keywords: | literature, science and medicine studies, gender and sexuality, novel, eighteenth century, nineteenth century, canonical authors, birth stories, reproductive medicine, gynecology, midwifery books, medical treatises, women's health |
| Divisions: | School of Writing, Publishing and the Humanities |
| Date Deposited: | 18 Nov 2024 10:11 |
| Last Modified: | 18 Nov 2024 10:11 |
| URI / Page ID: | https://researchspace.bathspa.ac.uk/id/eprint/16689 |
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