Overview
- Provides a broader historical perspective on the trope of the dead or absent mother, spanning material from the 1200s to 2014
- Cuts across genres and media, providing an interdisciplinary perspective
- Authors employ a variety of different theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches, including psychoanalysis, cultural studies, feminist and gender studies
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Theorizing the Absent Mother
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The Absent Mother as Protector and Advisor
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Shakespeare’s Absent Mothers Revisited
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The Absent Mother as Expendable, or a Threat
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Absent Mothers on the Big and Small Screen in the New Millennium
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Absent Mother in the Cultural Imagination
Book Subtitle: Missing, Presumed Dead
Editors: Berit Åström
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49037-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-49036-6Published: 20 July 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-84073-4Published: 01 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-49037-3Published: 11 July 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 264
Topics: Cultural Theory, Cultural History, Family, Film History, Children's Literature, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature