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D'Antonio, Amy.

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Devouring anxiety: Victorian breastfeeding and the modern individual.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Devouring anxiety: Victorian breastfeeding and the modern individual./
Author:	D'Antonio, Amy.
Description:	237 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-05, Section: A, page: 1661.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International70-05A.
Subject:	Women's Studies. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3360591
ISBN:	9781109181159

Devouring anxiety: Victorian breastfeeding and the modern individual.
D'Antonio, Amy.

Devouring anxiety: Victorian breastfeeding and the modern individual. - 237 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-05, Section: A, page: 1661.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Arizona State University, 2009.

This study investigates the epistemologically interdependent constructions of the breastfeeding mother and the modern individual in Victorian fiction, periodical writing, and advertising. Analyzing Charles Dickens's David Copperfield (1850), George Eliot's Adam Bede (1859), Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897), Ada S. Ballin's Baby Magazine (1887-1915) and several advertisements for infant food (1892-1900), the study argues that Victorian discourse constructs the modern individual in terms of psychological and aesthetic differentiation that grant an individual both autonomy and the capability for symbolization. This construction of modernity depends upon an attendant construction of the past as primitive and undifferentiated.

ISBN: 9781109181159Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017481
Women's Studies.

Devouring anxiety: Victorian breastfeeding and the modern individual.
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520 $a In the anthropologically informed milieu of the late nineteenth century, the relationship between maternity and autonomy becomes rhetorically vital to the self-definition of Victorian England while the infant feeding that emblematizes that relationship becomes a stage on which modernity is performed via displays of differentiation. By examining the breastfeeding mother in conjunction with the modern individual, this study uncovers the discursive means through which breastfeeding has been constructed as natural. It concludes that infant feeding serves for Victorian culture as a controlling metaphor around which that culture conceptualizes its own status as primitive or modern, progressive or degenerate, autonomous or lacking individuality.
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