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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... , Kathryn Read . PR658.M68P47 2007 822'.309354 - dc22 ISBN 978 0 7546 6117 7 Printed and bound in Great Britain by MPG Books Ltd. Bodmin , Cornwall . 2007000574 Contents List of Figures Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements xiii ཚོ.
... , Kathryn Read . PR658.M68P47 2007 822'.309354 - dc22 ISBN 978 0 7546 6117 7 Printed and bound in Great Britain by MPG Books Ltd. Bodmin , Cornwall . 2007000574 Contents List of Figures Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements xiii ཚོ.
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Kathryn M. Moncrief, Kathryn Read McPherson. Contents List of Figures Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements xiii ཚོ ཌ་ ཚ . vii ix 1 Embodied and Enacted : Performances of Maternity in Early Modern England 1 Kathryn M. Moncrief and ...
Kathryn M. Moncrief, Kathryn Read McPherson. Contents List of Figures Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements xiii ཚོ ཌ་ ཚ . vii ix 1 Embodied and Enacted : Performances of Maternity in Early Modern England 1 Kathryn M. Moncrief and ...
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... ' : Sodomy , Paternity and Circumcision in The Merchant of Venice 225 Douglas A. Brooks Selected Bibliography Index 239 243 List of Figures 1.1 Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger . Portrait vi Performing Maternity in Early Modern England.
... ' : Sodomy , Paternity and Circumcision in The Merchant of Venice 225 Douglas A. Brooks Selected Bibliography Index 239 243 List of Figures 1.1 Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger . Portrait vi Performing Maternity in Early Modern England.
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Kathryn M. Moncrief, Kathryn Read McPherson. List of Figures 1.1 Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger . Portrait of an Unknown Lady , circa 1595 2 3.1 11.1 Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger . Portrait of a Woman in Red , 1620 Monument of Elizabeth ...
Kathryn M. Moncrief, Kathryn Read McPherson. List of Figures 1.1 Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger . Portrait of an Unknown Lady , circa 1595 2 3.1 11.1 Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger . Portrait of a Woman in Red , 1620 Monument of Elizabeth ...
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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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