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In Romanticism, Maternity, and the Body Politic, Julie Kipp examines Romantic writers' treatments of motherhood and maternal bodies in the context of the legal, medical, educational and socioeconomic debates about motherhood so popular during the period. She argues that these discussions turned the physical processes associated with mothering into matters of national importance. The privately shared space signified by the womb or the maternal breast were made public by the widespread interest in the workings of the maternal body. These private spaces evidenced for writers of the period the radical exposure of mother and child to one another - for good or ill. Kipp's primary concern is to underline the ways that writers used representations of mother-child bonds as ways of naturalizing, endorsing and critiquing Enlightenment constructions of interpersonal and intercultural relations. This fascinating literary and cultural study will appeal to all scholars of Romanticism.

English literature --- Mother and child in literature. --- Romanticism --- Human body in literature. --- Motherhood in literature. --- Childbirth in literature. --- Mothers in literature. --- Body, Human, in literature --- Human figure in literature --- History and criticism. --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature

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Epistolary poetry, Latin --- Love poetry, Latin --- Narration (Rhetoric) --- Separation (Psychology) in literature. --- Mythology, Classical, in literature. --- Women and literature --- Love-letters in literature. --- Femininity in literature. --- Desire in literature. --- Women in literature. --- Rhetoric, Ancient. --- History and criticism. --- History --- Ovid, --- Desire in literature --- Femininity in literature --- Love-letters in literature --- Mythology, Classical, in literature --- Rhetoric, Ancient --- Separation (Psychology) in literature --- Women in literature --- Woman (Christian theology) in literature --- Women in drama --- Women in poetry --- Ancient rhetoric --- Classical languages --- Greek language --- Greek rhetoric --- Latin language --- Latin rhetoric --- Femininity (Psychology) in literature --- History and criticism --- Rhetoric --- Discourse analysis, Narrative --- Narratees (Rhetoric)

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This groundbreaking study analyzes the development of American gothic literature alongside nineteenth-century discourses of passing and racial ambiguity.By bringing together these areas of analysis, Justin Edwards considers the following questions. How are the categories of "race" and the rhetoric of racial difference tied to the language of gothicism? What can these discursive ties tell us about a range of social boundaries-gender, sexuality, class, race, etc.-during the nineteenth century? What can the construction and destabilization of these social boundaries tell us

Ambiguity in literature. --- American fiction --- Gothic revival (Literature) --- Horror tales, American --- Passing (Identity) in literature. --- Race in literature. --- Racially mixed people in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Mulattoes in literature --- AMERICAN FICTION --- RACE RELATIONS --- RACE IN LITERATURE --- AMBIGUITE DANS LA LITTERATURE --- NEO-GOTHIQUE (LITTERATURE) --- 19th CENTURY --- U.S. --- ETATS-UNIS

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Focusing on women's writing of the last two centuries, Scenes of the Apple traces the intricate relationship between food and body image for women. Ranging over a variety of genres, including novels, culinary memoirs, and essays, the contributors explore works by a diverse group of writers, including Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Toni Morrison, Tsitsi Dangarembga, and Jeanette Winterson, as well as such nonliterary documents as discussions of Queen Victoria's appetite and news coverage of suffragettes' hunger strikes. Moreover, in addressing works by Hispanic, African, African American, Jewish, and lesbian writers, the book explodes the myth that only white, privileged, and heterosexual women are concerned with body image, and shows the many cultural contexts in which food and cooking are important in women's literature. Above all, the essays pay tribute to the rich and multiple meanings of food in women's writing as a symbol for all kinds of delightful—and transgressive—desires.

Women in literature. --- Human body in literature. --- Food in literature. --- Literature --- Literature, Modern --- Belles-lettres --- Western literature (Western countries) --- World literature --- Philology --- Authors --- Authorship --- Body, Human, in literature --- Human figure in literature --- Woman (Christian theology) in literature --- Women in drama --- Women in poetry --- Women authors --- History and criticism. --- Littérature --- Corps humain --- Aliments --- Femmes écrivains --- Thèmes, motifs. --- Dans la littérature.

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Incarnations of fatal women, or femmes fatales, recur throughout the works of women writers in the Romantic period. Adriana Craciun demonstrates how portrayals of femmes fatales or fatal women played an important role in the development of Romantic women's poetic identities and informed their exploration of issues surrounding the body, sexuality and politics. Craciun covers a wide range of writers and genres from the 1790s through the 1830s. She discusses the work of well-known figures including Mary Wollstonecraft, as well as lesser-known writers like Anne Bannerman. By examining women writers' fatal women in historical, political and medical contexts, Craciun uncovers a far-ranging debate on sexual difference. She also engages with current research on the history of the body and sexuality, providing an important historical precedent for modern feminist theory's ongoing dilemma regarding the status of 'woman' as a sex.

English literature --- Women and literature --- Femmes fatales in literature. --- Romanticism --- Women in literature. --- Woman (Christian theology) in literature --- Women in drama --- Women in poetry --- Women authors --- History and criticism. --- History --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature --- History and criticism --- Great Britain --- 19th century --- Femmes fatales in literature --- Women in literature