Writers and their mothers

by Salwak, Dale

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Title Statements

Full title :Writers and their mothers / Dale Salwak, editor.

Summary

Ian McEwan, Margaret Drabble, Martin Amis, Rita Dove, Andrew Motion and Anthony Thwaite are among the twenty-two distinguished contributors of original essays to this landmark volume on the profound and frequently perplexing bond between writer and mother. In compelling detail they bring to life the thoughts, work, loves, friendships, passions and, above all, the influence of mothers upon their literary offspring from Shakespeare to the present. Many of the contributors evoke the ideal with fond and loving memories: understanding, selfless, spiritual, tender, protective, reassuring and self-assured mothers who created environments favorable to the development of their children's gifts. At the opposite end of the parenting spectrum, however, we also see tortured mothers who ignored, interfered with, smothered or abandoned their children. Their early years were times of traumatic loss, unhappily dominated by death and human frailty. Elegantly assembled and presented, Writers and Their Mothers will appeal to everyone interested in biography, literature, and creativity in general.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:[2018].

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Palgrave Macmillan
Place of Publication:Cham, Switzerland
Language:gre
Publication Date:[2018].

The Physical Object

Description:xx, 258 ; : 22 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9783319683478, 3319683470, 9783319683485, 3319683489
oclc:on1111697844
Dewey Decimal:809

Subjects

Authors -- Family relationships Biographies Écrivains -- Relations familiales Mères et filles Mères et fils Mothers and daughters Mothers and sons Mothers of authors Mothers of authors -- Biography