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Gender and historical narratives in bildungsroman: Representations of motherhood and daughterhood in historical novels

Gender and historical narratives in bildungsroman: Representations of motherhood and daughterhood in historical novels.   Rosy Angelaki     Abstract Motherhood is an intertemporal and stereotypical characteristic of the feminine identity and its ideological construction is enforced in the context of mother-daughter relationship; a relationship that psychoanalytic theories tried to