Paternity and Fatherhood: Myths and Realities by Lieve Spaas (English) Paperback

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How far is the cultural construct of fatherhood linked to biological paternity, and what is biological paternity? These are some of the questions explored through the chapters in this book, which together offer a fascinatingly complex view of fatherhood across the centuries.

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What kind of connotation does the word 'father' have in everyday language? How have states and governments defined and manipulated the paternal role? What is a 'father-figure'? What can literature tell us about absent or overbearing fathers? How far is the cultural construct of fatherhood linked to biological paternity, and what is biological paternity? These are some of the questions explored through the chapters in this book, which together offer a fascinatingly complex view of fatherhood across the centuries.

Author Biography

LIEVE SPAAS is Professor of French Cultural Studies at Kingston University. She has published on Rousseau and the eighteenth-century novel and is part of the CNRS Rousseau research team in Paris. Her socio-historical analysis of the correspondence of Catherine de Saint-Pierre to her brother Bernardin appeared in 1996, Lettres de Catherine de Saint-Pierre a son frère Bernardin. She is co-editor with Brian Stimpson of Robinson Crusoe: Myths and Metamorphoses, and is general editor of the `Cultural Studies Monographs' series with Berghahn Books.

Table of Contents

Preface Notes on the Contributors Introduction: Mythical Constructs and Social Realities; L.Spaas PART ONE: BIOLOGICAL PATERNITY IN LAW AND LANGUAGE Heredity and Paternity; M.Andreoli The Paternal Role and the Napoleonic Code; X.Martin DNA and the Stakes in Embodying Paternity; C.Mossman Factoring the Father; C.McDonald Heredity of Power and Paternity of the Text in some Medieval Works; Y.de Pontfarcy Pére and Mére: Unequals in Language; P.Bolusset PART TWO: ABSENT FATHERS Life without Father: Revisions of Paternity in Women's Writing in France; J.Birkett Absent Fathers across the Spectrum of Local Colour in the Short Stories of Kate Chopin; J.B.Goodwyn Death of the Father and Birth of Idolatry: from Mme de Sevigne to her Daughter ; A.Cozea The Father-Effect: Rimbaud, Pessoa; J-J.Hamm PART THREE: REINVENTING FATHER Fatherhood in the Works of George Sand; A.Szabo Politics and Fatherhood in the African Novel: Le Chercheur D'Afriques by Henri Lopes ; P.Corcoran Loys Masson: Writing the Father; M.Mongelard Il Papa, Sade's Pater Beyond Compare; B.Fink Kafka's Papa; S.L.Gilman Death with Father in David Copperfield ; J.Nunokawa PART FOUR: PATERNITY, SEX, GENDER AND SUCCESSION Why do Ogres Eat Babies? Monstrous Paternity in Myth and Fairytales; M.Warner Fathers as Mothers: the Myth of Male Parthenogenesis; L.Thomas Dispossessing the Father in the Fiction of Michel Tournier; M.Ferrigan Molière's Disturbing Fathers; T.Gorilovics Shakespeare and the Misrecognition of Fathers and Sons; L.Danson 'Father and Mother is One Flesh': Hamlet and the Problems of Paternity; A.Thompson & N.Taylor Mystical Estates and Legal Fictions: Modernism's Apostolic Successions; S.Smith Epilogue Index

Long Description

What kind of connotation does the word 'father' have in everyday language? How have states and governments defined and manipulated the paternal role? What is a 'father-figure'? What can literature tell us about absent or overbearing fathers? How far is the cultural construct of fatherhood linked to biological paternity, and what is biological paternity? These are some of the questions explored through the chapters in this book, which together offer a fascinatingly complex view of fatherhood across the centuries.

Details ISBN1349138185 ISBN-10 1349138185 ISBN-13 9781349138180 Format Paperback Publisher Palgrave Macmillan Short Title PATERNITY & FATHERHOOD 1998/E Language English Media Book Imprint Palgrave Macmillan Subtitle Myths and Realities Place of Publication Basingstoke Country of Publication United Kingdom Edited by Trista Selous Year 1998 Publication Date 1998-01-01 Edition 1st Pages 283 UK Release Date 1998-01-01 AU Release Date 1998-01-01 NZ Release Date 1998-01-01 Author Trista Selous Illustrations XV, 283 p. Edition Description 1st ed. 1998 Alternative 9780333642375 DEWEY 809.93352043 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this

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