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082 04 $a813.3093561$223/eng/20220901
100 1 $aMedoro, Dana,$d1967-$eauthor.
245 10 $aCertain concealments :$bPoe, Hawthorne, and early nineteenth-century abortion /$cDana Medoro.
264 1 $aAmherst :$bUniversity of Massachusetts Press,$c[2022]
300 $axviii, 213 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
490 0 $aBecoming modern: studies in the long nineteenth century
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 $a"Antebellum America saw a great upsurge in abortion, driven in part by the rise of the pharmaceutical industry. Unsurprisingly, the practice became increasingly visible in the popular culture and literature of the era, appearing openly in advertisements, popular fiction, and newspaper reports. One figure would come to dominate national headlines from the 1840s onward: Madame Restell. Facing public condemnation and mob attacks at her home for her dogged support of women's reproductive rights, Restell built an empire selling her powders, pills, and services along the Eastern Seaboard. Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne undoubtedly knew of Restell's work and would go on to depict the incompatibility of abortion and nationalism in their writings. Through the thwarted plotlines, genealogical interruptions, and terminated ideas of Poe's Dupin trilogy and Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, The House of Seven Gables, and The Blithedale Romance, these authors consider new concepts around race, reproduction, and American exceptionalism. Dana Medoro demonstrates that their work can be usefully read in the context of debates on fetal life and personhood that circulated in the era"--$cProvided by publisher.
505 00 $tPart I. Detection, confession, termination: three by Edgar Allan Poe --$g1.$tStargazing on the Rue Morgue --$g2.$tAverse from swerving in "The mystery of Marie Rogêt" --$g3.$tAn unusual gaping in the joints: delivering the purloined letter --$tPart II. Nation, plantation, annihilation: three by Nathaniel Hawthorne --$g4.$tPasswords and countersigns: The scarlet letter --$g5.$tAlleged necromancies within a system: The house of the seven gables --$g6.$tThe Blithedale romance and abortion's conditional perfect. --$gConclusion.
600 10 $aPoe, Edgar Allan,$d1809-1849$xCriticism and interpretation.
600 10 $aHawthorne, Nathaniel,$d1804-1864$xCriticism and interpretation.
600 17 $aHawthorne, Nathaniel,$d1804-1864.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00030387
600 17 $aPoe, Edgar Allan,$d1809-1849.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00032674
650 0 $aAmerican fiction$y19th century$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aAbortion in literature.
650 7 $aAbortion in literature.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00794649
655 7 $aCriticism, interpretation, etc.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01411635
852 00 $bglx$hPS374.A24$iM44 2022