Output details
29 - English Language and Literature
University College London
Book title
A child of one's own: parental stories
Type
A - Authored book
DOI
-
Publisher of book
Oxford University Press
ISBN of book
9780199607945
Year of publication
2013
URL
-
Number of additional authors
0
Additional information
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Interdisciplinary
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Cross-referral requested
-
Research group
None
Proposed double-weighted
Yes
Double-weighted statement
This book of 100,000 words draws on an archive of press material on new reproductive technologies that I have been collecting for more than 20 years, and makes a complex set of arguments about new stories of parenthood and the representation of parental feelings and identity in older literature: a new field of enquiry for criticism. The first half of the book is conceptual and historical, analysing (notions and practices of) conception, reproductive choice, and surrogacy from 1800 to the present. Nine further chapters bring to bear this historical-analytical perspectives, finding hitherto unnoticed parental aspects of well-known literary narratives.
Reserve for a double-weighted output
No
Non-English
No
English abstract
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