Abortion, choice, and contemporary fiction : the armageddon of the maternal instinct / Judith Wilt.
Material type: TextPublication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c1990.Description: xiii, 183 p. ; 23 cmISBN:- 0226901580 (alk. paper)
- American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- Abortion in literature
- Birth control in literature
- Motherhood in literature
- Mother and child in literature
- Mothers in literature
- Women in literature
- English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- English fiction Special subjects Abortion
- 813/.509353 20
- PS374.A24 W55 1990
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-179) and index.
WAR, NEWBERY,
Introduction: The wreck, and the story of the wreck -- Paradigms for the plot of maternal choice: Novels by John Barth and Margaret Drabble -- "We are not dying": Abortion and recovery in four novels by women -- Abortion and the fears of the fathers: Five male writers -- Black maternity: "A Need for someone to want the black baby to live."