The Pregnancy Question and the Novel
Detection and Concealment from Richardson to Hardy
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Product details:
- Edition number 2025
- Publisher Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Date of Publication 16 July 2026
- Number of Volumes 1 pieces, Book
- ISBN 9781137276452
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages272 pages
- Size 210x148 mm
- Language English
- Illustrations Approx. 270 p. 700
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This open-access book considers the depiction of pregnancy and birth in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century fiction. It explores the ways that novelists – and characters – simultaneously hide and reveal what is happening inside the female body. The Pregnancy Question reconstructs the knowledge of reproductive medicine that operated on readers and writers during these periods. Because it uncovers what can easily be missed in these representations, this study can be viewed as an act of literary detective work. Through close readings of concealed pregnancy in the novels of Richardson, the Brontës, George Eliot, Dickens and Hardy, Tracy Brain highlights the reciprocal influence between literature and science. She asks why these portrayals and the challenges they pose continue to matter in the twenty-first century, and why concealed pregnancy and its aftermath is yet to be consigned to distant history and centuries-old fiction.
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Chapter 1: Introduction.- PART I: CLARISSA.- Chapter 2: ‘Conceal this Unhappy Body’: Clarissa and the Question of Hidden Pregnancy.- Chapter 3: Clarissa’s Insoluble Mystery.- PART II: AFTER CLARISSA.- Chapter 4: Clarissa’s Early Followers.- Chapter 5: Emily Brontë, Anne Brontë and Charles Dickens.- Chapter 6: George Eliot’s Adam Bede, or, Clarissa Retold.- Chapter 7: ‘Covert Shrinking to a More and More Horrible Narrowness’: Thomas Hardy’s Pregnancies.- Chapter 8: Reading and Writing Pregnancy: Prompts for Creative Practice and Further Thought.- Bibliography.- Index.
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