Pregnancy and the Novel: Representation and Concealment from Richardson to Hardy

by Tracy Brain

Pregnancy and the Novel is a study of covert representations of pregnancy and birth in canonical eighteenth- and nineteenth-century novels. The research draws on medical texts to illuminate the ways that novelists simultaneously hide and reveal problematic pregnancies and births. Grounded in narrative theory and historicism, it reveals a reciprocal influence between literature and science through the novels of Samuel Richardson, the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137276452
• ISBN13: 9781137276452
• Release Date: June 2025
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 272 Pages