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Poem about a young woman who killed herself after her lover left her for another, having left her pregnant and promising to marry her. The last verse asks for mercy from God and support from Jesus Christ.

Death and dying ephemera. Box 2.

The effects of love : being a true copy of verses, supposed to be written by Janet Parker, a young woman about 24 years of age, in Sandgate, in Newcastle upon Tyne, who hanged herself on Monday last, the 13th of February, 1792, for the  loss of her sweetheart; and this was found wrapped up in a letter near the place where the melancholy affair happened.

"This is an exploration of the ways in which pregnancy affects narrative, begins with two canonical American texts. Ultimately, the pregnancy narrative in popular film and fiction provides a remarkably clear lens by which we can gauge how popular American film and fiction express our most profound--and most private--fears, values and hopes"-- Provided by publisher.

vii, 238 pages : black and white illustrations ; 23 cm

Pregnancy in literature and film / Parley Ann Boswell.

"Current debates about birth control can be surprisingly volatile, especially given the near-universal use of contraception among American and British women. Conceived in Modernism: The Aesthetics and Politics of Birth Control offers a new perspective on these debates by demonstrating that the political positions surrounding birth control have roots in literary concerns, specifically those of modernist writers. Whereas most scholarship treats modernism and birth control activism as parallel, but ultimately separate, movements, Conceived in Modernism shows that they were deeply intertwined. This book argues not only that literary concerns exerted a lasting influence on the way activists framed the emerging politics of contraception, but that birth control activism helped shape some of modernism's most innovative concepts. By revealing the presence of literary aesthetics in the discourse surrounding birth control, Conceived in Modernism helps us see this discourse as a variable facet rather than a permanent bulwark of reproductive rights debates"-- Provided by publisher.
"Offers a new perspective on the politics of contraception by showing that Anglo-American birth control rhetoric has roots in modernism"-- Provided by publisher.

Bloomsbury literary studies series.

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Conceived in modernism : the aesthetics and politics of birth control / Aimee Armande Wilson.

Shakespeare's images of pregnancy / Elizabeth Sacks.

This giving birth : pregnancy and childbirth in American women's writing / edited by Julie Tharp and Susan MacCallum-Whitcomb.

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Pregnancy in literature

Catalogue

Pregnancy in literature and film / Parley Ann Boswell.

Conceived in modernism : the aesthetics and politics of birth control / Aimee Armande Wilson.

Shakespeare's images of pregnancy / Elizabeth Sacks.

This giving birth : pregnancy and childbirth in American women's writing / edited by Julie Tharp and Susan MacCallum-Whitcomb.

Wellcome uses cookies.

Pregnancy in literature

Catalogue

Pregnancy in literature and film / Parley Ann Boswell.

Conceived in modernism : the aesthetics and politics of birth control / Aimee Armande Wilson.

Shakespeare's images of pregnancy / Elizabeth Sacks.

This giving birth : pregnancy and childbirth in American women's writing / edited by Julie Tharp and Susan MacCallum-Whitcomb.

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