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An Interesting Condition: Reproduction and the Un-Domestication of the Victorian Novel

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Victorian novels’ characteristic preoccupation with marriage and inheritance has led scholars to view the form as socially conservative in the mid-nineteenth century. Yet contemporary commentators feared what young women might conceive as a result of reading. The key to this dilemma, I argue, is the usual consequence of nineteenth-century marriage...

Keyword:

pregnancy, Victorian, reproduction, breastfeeding, childbirth, and novel

Subject:

English

Creator:

Sarah Elizabeth Roth

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Scholarly Digital Publishing

Date Uploaded:

01/09/2019

Date Modified:

01/29/2019

Date Created:

2017-01-01

Resource Type:

Dissertation