Naming the Father: Legacies, Genealogies, and Explorations of Fatherhood in Modern and Contemporary Literature

by Terry Caesar, William Hummel, Eva Paulino Bueno

Book Overview

Naming the Father is a collection of essays on the subject of fatherhood: its enduring power, its secret ruses, its unsettling provocations. Despite the considerable critical attention devoted to motherhood in literature-and despite the late-twentieth-century focus on patriarchy-there is surprisingly no comparable collection on fatherhood. This volume was born of the conclusion that critics of modern and contemporary literature may comprehend the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0739100920
• ISBN13: 9780739100929
• Release Date: May 2000
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 9.0"