Performing Maternity in Early Modern EnglandKathryn M. Moncrief, Kathryn Read McPherson The essays here share a common concern with exploring maternity's cultural representation, performative aspects and practical consequences in the period from 1540-1690. They look at how early modern texts depict fertility, conception, delivery and gendered constructions of maternity. |
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Contents
circa 1595 | 2 |
The Performance of Maternal Suffering | 10 |
2 | 17 |
5 | 46 |
6 | 61 |
7 | 87 |
9 | 102 |
Male Mothering and The Tempest | 115 |
Courtesy of the Dean and Chapter of Westminster | 144 |
Maternity and Child Loss in Stuart Womens Diaries | 171 |
Murder as Birth in Macbeth | 197 |
Tamburlaines Domestic Threat | 211 |
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Performing Maternity in Early Modern England Kathryn Read McPherson,Kathryn M. Moncrief No preview available - 2016 |
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