{"product_id":"9781137276452","title":"The Pregnancy Question and the Novel Detection and Concealment from Richardson to Hardy","description":"\u003ch1\u003eThe Pregnancy Question and the Novel\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eDetection and Concealment from Richardson to Hardy\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eTracy Brain\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eLiterary Criticism \/ Comparative Literature\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis open-access book considers the depiction of pregnancy and birth in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century fiction. It explores the ways that novelists – and characters – simultaneously hide and reveal what is happening inside the female body. \u003cem data-ogsc=\"\"\u003eThe Pregnancy Question \u003c\/em\u003ereconstructs the knowledge of reproductive medicine that operated on readers and writers during these periods. Because it uncovers what can easily be missed in these representations, this study can be viewed as an act of literary detective work. Through close readings of concealed pregnancy in the novels of Richardson, the Brontës, George Eliot, Dickens and Hardy, Tracy Brain highlights the reciprocal influence between literature and science. She asks why these portrayals and the challenges they pose continue to matter in the twenty-first century, and why concealed pregnancy and its aftermath is yet to be consigned to distant history and centuries-old fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTracy Brain\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor of Creative Writing and English Literature at Bath Spa University, UK. She is the author of \u003cem\u003eThe Other Sylvia Plath\u003c\/em\u003e, co-editor of \u003cem\u003eRepresenting Sylvia Plath\u003c\/em\u003e, and editor of \u003cem\u003eSylvia Plath in Context\u003c\/em\u003e. She has published four novels under a penname.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e26 July 2026\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBath Spa University\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePalgrave Macmillan\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9781137276452\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHardback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e327\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Bath Spa University","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44449270005900,"sku":"9781137276452","price":51.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9781137276452.jpg?v=1781059568","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9781137276452","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}