“Nursed under his own Eye”: Co-Nursing Fathers and the Spectacle of Breastfeeding in the British Romantic Period.

This article offers a critical reading of the representational prevalence of the paternal eye in British eighteenth-century depictions of breastfeeding. I demonstrate how the Romantic period embraced the concept of the father’s gaze as a physiologically intuitive and culturally significant form of p...

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Publicado en:Eighteenth Century Fiction Vol. 34; no. 4; pp. 441 - 470
Autor principal: Shchuka, Virlana M.
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: University of Toronto Press Summer2022
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