"A mother is, next to God, all powerful," The Public Ledger asserted in 1850. Looking at complex representations of maternity in sentimental fiction, in texts treating the problem of slavery, and in selected canonical literature, Stephanie A. Smith traces the career of an ideology of sanctified maternity in antebellum American culture.
- ISBN10 0801481503
- ISBN13 9780801481505
- Publish Date 1 May 1995 (first published 1 January 1994)
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 24 January 2009
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Cornell University Press
- Format Paperback
- Pages 248
- Language English