The lost tradition : mothers and daughters in literature

Ed. by Cathy N. Davidson and E.M. Broner.

1 The lost mother. Mothers and daughters in ancient Near Eastern literature - Judith Ochshorn. Kriemhild and Clytemnestra--sisters in crime or independent women? - Ida H. Washington and Carol E.W. Tobol. Eve's orphans: mothers and daughters in medieval English literature - Nikki Stiller. The new mother of the English Renaissance: her writings on motherhood - Betty S. Travitsky. The great unwritten story: mothers and daughters in Shakespeare - Myra Glazer Schotz. 2 Daughters of the patriarchy. Jane Austen and the tradition of the absent mother - Susan Peck MacDonald. Unmothered daughter and radical reformer: Harriet Martineau's career - Mitzi Myers. "The mother's history" in George Eliot's life, literature and political ideology - Bonnie Zimmerman. Mothers and daughters in Wives and Daughters: a study of Elizabeth Gaskell's last novel - Jacqueline Berke and Laura Berke. 3 Columbia's daughters. Mothers and daughters in the fiction of the New Republic - Cathy N. Davidson. Reconstruction in the house of art: Emily Dickinson's "I never had a mother" - Barbara Ann Clarke Mossberg. Ellen Glasgow: daughter as justified - Linda W. Wagner. Mothers, daughters, and incest in thelate novels of Edith Wharton - Adeline R. Tintner. 4 A trinity of mothers. Reentering paradise: Cather, Colette, Woolf and their mothers - Jane Lilienfeld. How light a lighthouse for today's women - Irene G. Dash, Deena Dash, Kushner, and Deborah Dash Moore. 5 Mother as Medusa. The muse as Medusa - Karen Elias-Button. The nightmare repetition: the mother-daughter conflict in Doris Lessing's Children of Violence - Katherine Fishburn. A subtle psychic bond: the mother figure in Sylvia Plath's poetyr - Mary Lynn Broe. The hungry Jewish mother - Erika Duncan. A psychological journey: mothers and daughters in English-Canadian fiction - Lorna Irvine. 6 The new matrilineage. "Don't never forget the bridge that you crossed over on": the literature of matrilineage - Nan Bauer Maglin. Spider Woman's web: mothers and daughters in Southwestern Native American literature - Helen M. Bannan. Mothers and daughters: another minority group - Natalie M. Rosinsky. Heritages: dimensions of mother-daughter relationships in women's autobiographies - Lynn Z. Bloom. 7 Bibliography. Mothers and daughters in literature: a preliminary bibliography - Gail M. Rudenstein, Carol Farley Kessler, and Ann M. Moore

'These twenty-four essays make up a source book on the presence of the feminine in many cultures. Publishers Weekly has called it "an intriguing excursion through the changing relationships of mothers and daughters as depicted in world literature.

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