Jennifer S. Henke

Reproduction and the Maternal Body in Literature and Culture

Bodies of Knowledge, 1726-1818. Sprachen: Englisch. 23,4 cm / 15,6 cm / 1,5 cm ( B/H/T )
Buch (Softcover), 292 Seiten
EAN 9781032742229
Veröffentlicht August 2026
Verlag/Hersteller Taylor & Francis Ltd
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Beschreibung

This book examines a selection of texts to discuss how midwifery, obstetrics and women's bodies were constructed during the (long) eighteenth century, and how these material-discursive entanglements between science, medicine, literature and culture have shaped society's views of pregnancy, childbirth and reproduction. Drawing on theories from disciplines such as feminist new materialism, this book traces the history of both the reproductive body and the pluralistic medical knowledges that attended to pregnancy and childbirth during the Enlightenment and early Romanticism in Britain. It identifies the significance of literary and cultural artefacts in this knowledge formation, including the materiality of the female reproductive body itself, and raises awareness of myths about pregnancy and childbirth that persist today. This book features chapters exploring Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, John Cleland's Fanny Hill, Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy, Eliza Fenwick's Secresy, Or: The Ruin on the Rock, Mary Wollstonecraft's Maria, Or: The Wrongs of Woman, and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Reproduction and the Maternal Body in Literature and Culture is an innovative and interdisciplinary contribution to the medical humanities and feminist philosophy of science and will interest scholars from a range of backgrounds, including literature and cultural studies, midwifery, medicine and history.

Portrait

Jennifer S. Henke is a literary and cultural studies scholar with a PhD from the University of Bremen, Germany, and a Venia Legendi for Anglophone Literary and Cultural Studies from the University of Bonn, Germany.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1.PART I | Mapping the Field, 1.1. Introduction: In the Delivery Room, 1.2. Context: Historicising the Reproductive Body, 1.3. Framework: Beyond Representationalism, 2. PART II | Science, Sex & Secret Bodies of Knowledge, 2.1. Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels (1726), 2.2. John Cleland's Fanny Hill (1749), 2.3. Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy (1759), 2.4. Eliza Fenwick's Secresy, Or: The Ruin on the Rock (1795), 2.5. Mary Wollstonecraft's Maria, Or: The Wrongs of Woman (1798), 2.6. Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Or: The Modern Prometheus (1818), 3. PART III | Stitching the Pieces Together, 3.1 Stitching, 4.Bibliography

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