Maternal Modernism Narrating Mothers

Drawing On The Figure And Discourses Of The Victorian Fin-de-sicle Woman, This Book Examines Women Writers Who Struggled With Conservative, Patriarchal Ideologies Of Motherhood In Novels, Periodicals And Life Writings Of The Long Modernist Period. It Shows How These Writers Challenged, Resisted, Adapted And Negotiated Traditional Ideas With Their Own Versions Of Motherhood, With Needs For Identities And Experiences Beyond Maternity. Tracing The Period From The End Of The Nineteenth Century Through The Twentieth, This Study Explores How Some Of The Numerous Elements And Forces We Identify With Modernism Are Manifested In Equally Diverse And Often Competing Representations Of Mothers, Mothering And Motherhood.