ch. 1. Representation, reproduction, and women's place in language -- ch. 2. Building refuges: Dorothy Wordsworth's poetics of the image -- ch. 3. The name of the mother in Wuthering Heights -- ch. 4. Dreaming of children: literalization in Jane Eyre -- ch. 5. Bearing demons: Frankenstein's circumvention of the maternal -- ch. 6. Eliot, Wordsworth, and the scenes of the sister's instruction -- ch. 7. The author as mother: bearing the word as nineteenth-century ideology -- ch. 8. Figuring the mother: Madonna Romola's incarnation -- ch. 9. Mothers and daughters I: Gaskell's stories of the mother's word and the daughter's fate -- ch. 10. Mothers and daughters II: Wives and daughters, or "Two mothers" -- Postscript Mother and daughters in Virginia Woolf's Victorian novel
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English literature Women writers, 1800-1900 - Critical studies
