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Baym, Nina Chantell, Claire Ann 2015-09-25T20:15:50Z 2015-09-25T20:15:50Z 10000-01-01 2000 2000 Modern critics of antebellum American literature have read domestic literature as bolstering the development of liberal-capitalist culture, including sentimental ideals of home and motherhood. This critical account does not explain, however, the widespread and recurrent evidence of ambivalence towards these ideals in this literature. Focusing specifically on representations of the mother's role in female education, I identify in nonfictional and fictional texts produced between 1780 and 1870 both moments of critique and attempts to accommodate sentimental maternalism. This ambivalence registers a residual commitment to republican, communitarian values amid the emergence and eventual domination of a liberal-capitalist social order. Made available in DSpace on 2015-09-25T20:15:50Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license.txt: 4848 bytes, checksum: 96035ab3f5e1c23cc7138a224ce498bd (MD5) 9971043.pdf: 11710282 bytes, checksum: 12d408639ae831297ec178f827534698 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2000 Embargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 82791 Lift date: Forever Reason: Restricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETDs Restricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETDs U of I Only 229 p. Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/2142/81510 (MiAaPQ)AAI9971043 eng Women's Studies """A Better Guardianship"": Mothers, Surrogates, and Female Education in Domestic Literature, 1790--1860" text English English University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dissertation Ph.D.