View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by Louisiana State University Louisiana State University LSU Digital Commons LSU Doctoral Dissertations Graduate School 2004 Mothering modes: analyzing mother roles in novels by twentieth-century United States women writers Preselfannie Whitfield cDM aniels Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gradschool_dissertations Part of the English Language and Literature Commons Recommended Citation McDaniels, Preselfannie Whitfield, "Mothering modes: analyzing mother roles in novels by twentieth-century United States women writers" (2004). LSU Doctoral Dissertations. 1825. https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gradschool_dissertations/1825 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by the Graduate School at LSU Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in LSU Doctoral Dissertations by an authorized graduate school editor of LSU Digital Commons. For more information, please
[email protected]. MOTHERING MODES: ANALYZING MOTHER ROLES IN NOVELS BY TWENTIETH-CENTURY UNITED STATES WOMEN WRITERS A Dissertation Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of the Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in The Department of English by Preselfannie W. McDaniels B.A., Jackson State University, 1992 M.A., Mississippi College, 1994 May 2004 Acknowledgements I wish to thank my parents, Benjamin and Linda Whitfield, for their love, encouragement, inspiration, support, and love of the Lord. Together, they are the solid foundation on which I was and am still able to stand. I would truly like to thank my husband, Johnnie McDaniels, for his monumental love, saintly patience, undying motivation, editing skills, childcare knowledge, and household management.