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Mother's Love
Lesley H. Walker
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Description for Mother's Love
hardcover. Series: Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth Century Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 251 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 167 x 19. Weight in Grams: 558.
A Mother's Love: Crafting Feminine Virtue in Enlightenment France chronicles the emegence of an idealized mother figure whose reforming zeal sought to make French society more just. Lesley H. Walker contends that this attempt during the eighteenth century to 'rewrite' social relations in terms of greater social equality represents an important but overlooked strand of Enlightenment thought. During this period, popular domestic novels, the ever-raging debates about women's social roles, and highly sought-after genre paintings produced a remarkable image of motherhood. Through a focus on feminine virtue, Walker studies female writers and artists to argue that these women theorize the ... Read more
A Mother's Love: Crafting Feminine Virtue in Enlightenment France chronicles the emegence of an idealized mother figure whose reforming zeal sought to make French society more just. Lesley H. Walker contends that this attempt during the eighteenth century to 'rewrite' social relations in terms of greater social equality represents an important but overlooked strand of Enlightenment thought. During this period, popular domestic novels, the ever-raging debates about women's social roles, and highly sought-after genre paintings produced a remarkable image of motherhood. Through a focus on feminine virtue, Walker studies female writers and artists to argue that these women theorize the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Bucknell University Press United States
Number of pages
251
Condition
New
Series
Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth Century Literature and Culture
Number of Pages
251
Place of Publication
Cranbury, United States
ISBN
9781611482867
SKU
V9781611482867
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About Lesley H. Walker
Lesley H. Walker is associate professor of French and chair of the Department of World Language Studies at Indiana University South Bend.
Reviews for Mother's Love
'Lesley Walker's ably executed interdisciplinary study is a welcome contribution to the field of maternal discourse: it is well worth the reading.'
Antoinette Sol, University of Texas at Arlington
New Perspectives on the Eighteenth Century, Spring 2009
Antoinette Sol, University of Texas at Arlington
New Perspectives on the Eighteenth Century, Spring 2009