Maternity, Mortality, and the Literature of Madness

by Marilyn Yalom

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This book explores the interrelationship between the option and experience of motherhood and the experience of mental breakdown as vividly communicated by 20th-century women writers. The focus is on three writers Sylvia Plath, Marie Cardinal, and Margaret Atwood but others are included, such as Maxine Hong Kingston, Anne Sexton, Virginia Woolf, and Emma Santos.Maternity, Mortality, and the Literature of Madness calls attention to the ways in which...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0271003987

ISBN13:9780271003986

Release Date:October 1990

Publisher:Penn State University Press

Length:144 Pages

Weight:0.95 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Related Subjects

Biographical Biographies Biographies & History Biography & History Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Modern (16th-21st Centuries)

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