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Mothers and Daughters in the Twentieth Century : A Literary Anthology / Heather Ingman.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©1999Description: 1 online resource (272 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780748611751
  • 9781474469456
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- PREFATORY NOTE -- INTRODUCTION -- Charlotte Mew (1869—1928) -- The Quiet House -- May Sinclair (1863-1946) -- Mary Olivier: A Life -- Anna Wickham (1884—1947) -- The Angry Woman -- Anzia Yezierska (? 1880-1970) -- Bread Givers -- Winifred Holtby (1898-1935) -- South Riding -- Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) -- A Sketch of the Past -- Jean Rhys (1890-1979) -- Wide Sargasso Sea -- Tillie Olsen (? 1913— ) -- I Stand Here Ironing -- Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) -- Balloons -- Margaret Drabble (1939- ) -- The Millstone -- Adrienne Rich (1929- ) -- Mother-in-Law -- Storm Jameson (1891-1986) -- Journey from the North -- Kathleen Raine (1908- ) -- Heirloom -- Alice Walker (1944- ) -- In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens -- Maya Angelou (1928- ) -- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings -- Toni Morrison (1931- ) -- Beloved -- Eavan Boland (1944- ) -- Night Feed -- Zee Edgell (1940- ) -- Beka Lamb -- Amy Tan (1952- ) -- The Joy Luck Club -- Angela Carter (1940-1992) -- Ashputtle or The Mother's Ghost -- Margaret Atwood (1939- ) -- Giving Birth -- Michele Roberts (1949- ) -- God's House -- BIBLIOGRAPHY
Summary: This anthology of women's writing on the mother-daughter relationship covers the whole of the twentieth century and includes writing from many different cultures - black American, Jewish, West Indian, Irish, Chinese-American. The anthology has headnotes giving brief biographical details for each author plus suggestions for further reading. There is a substantial introduction tracking the evolution of the mother-daughter relationship in the twentieth century, setting it in the context of developments in psychoanalytical and feminist theory.Covers fiction, non-fiction and poetry from different cultures and different decadesSubstantial introduction tracing the evolution of the mother-daugher relationship in the 20th centuryHeadnotes place the extracts in their historical and cultural contextOverview of feminist and psychoanalytical theory relating to the mother-daughter relationship
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- PREFATORY NOTE -- INTRODUCTION -- Charlotte Mew (1869—1928) -- The Quiet House -- May Sinclair (1863-1946) -- Mary Olivier: A Life -- Anna Wickham (1884—1947) -- The Angry Woman -- Anzia Yezierska (? 1880-1970) -- Bread Givers -- Winifred Holtby (1898-1935) -- South Riding -- Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) -- A Sketch of the Past -- Jean Rhys (1890-1979) -- Wide Sargasso Sea -- Tillie Olsen (? 1913— ) -- I Stand Here Ironing -- Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) -- Balloons -- Margaret Drabble (1939- ) -- The Millstone -- Adrienne Rich (1929- ) -- Mother-in-Law -- Storm Jameson (1891-1986) -- Journey from the North -- Kathleen Raine (1908- ) -- Heirloom -- Alice Walker (1944- ) -- In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens -- Maya Angelou (1928- ) -- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings -- Toni Morrison (1931- ) -- Beloved -- Eavan Boland (1944- ) -- Night Feed -- Zee Edgell (1940- ) -- Beka Lamb -- Amy Tan (1952- ) -- The Joy Luck Club -- Angela Carter (1940-1992) -- Ashputtle or The Mother's Ghost -- Margaret Atwood (1939- ) -- Giving Birth -- Michele Roberts (1949- ) -- God's House -- BIBLIOGRAPHY

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This anthology of women's writing on the mother-daughter relationship covers the whole of the twentieth century and includes writing from many different cultures - black American, Jewish, West Indian, Irish, Chinese-American. The anthology has headnotes giving brief biographical details for each author plus suggestions for further reading. There is a substantial introduction tracking the evolution of the mother-daughter relationship in the twentieth century, setting it in the context of developments in psychoanalytical and feminist theory.Covers fiction, non-fiction and poetry from different cultures and different decadesSubstantial introduction tracing the evolution of the mother-daugher relationship in the 20th centuryHeadnotes place the extracts in their historical and cultural contextOverview of feminist and psychoanalytical theory relating to the mother-daughter relationship

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In English.

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