Writing mothers and daughters renegotiating the mother in Western European narratives by women

Writing mothers and daughters : renegotiating the mother in Western European narratives by women / edited by Adalgisa Giorgio.

Other author/creator	Giorgio, Adalgisa.
Other author/creator	American Council of Learned Societies.
Format	Electronic and Book
Publication Info	New York : Berghahn Books,
Description	xiii, 258 p. ; 24 cm.
Supplemental Content	Full text available from ACLS Humanities E-Book
Subject(s)	Mothers in literature. Mothers and daughters in literature. European fiction--20th century --History and criticism. European fiction--Women authors --History and criticism. Women and literature--Europe --History --20th century.

Contents	Machine generated contents note: Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction Mothers and Daughters in Western Europe: -- Mapping the Territory -- Adalgisa Giorgio -- Chapter One Writing the Mother-Daughter Relationship: -- Psychoanalysis, Culture, and Literary Criticism -- Adalgisa Giorgio -- Chapter Two Towards a Female Symbolic: Re-Presenting Mothers -- and Daughters in Contemporary Spanish Narrative -- by Women -- Christine Arkinstall -- Chapter Three 'The Horror of the Unlived Life': Mother-Daughter -- Relationships in Contemporary Irish Women's Fiction -- Anne Fogarty -- Chapter Four The Passion for the Mother: Conflicts and Idealisations -- in Contemporary Italian Narrative by Women -- Adalgisa Giorgio -- Chapter Five Writing Mother-Daughter Relationality in the -- French Context -- Alex Hughes -- Chapter Six Bad Daughters and Unmotherly Mothers: The New -- Family Plot in the Contemporary English Novel -- Paola Splendore -- Chapter Seven Power and Powerlessness: Mothers and Daughters -- in Postwar German and Austrian Literature -- Chris Weedon -- Index.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access restriction	Available only to authorized users.
Technical details	Mode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/form	Electronic books.
LCCN	2001025791
ISBN	1571819533 (alk. paper)

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