Performing Maternity in Early Modern EnglandPerforming Maternity in Early Modern England features essays that share a common concern with exploring maternity's cultural representation, performative aspects and practical consequences in the period from 1540-1690. The essays interrogate how early modern texts depict fertility, conception, delivery and gendered constructions of maternity by analyzing a wealth of historical documents and images in conjunction with dramatic and non-dramatic literary texts. They emphasize that the embodied, repeated and public nature of maternity defines it as inherently performative and ultimately central to the production of gender identity during the early modern period. |
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... Hopkins Part II The Performance of Maternal Authority 7 'Smocksecrets': Birth and Women's Mysteries on the Early Modern Stage Janelle Jenstad 8 Disciplining the Mother in SeventeenthCentury English Puritanism Christina Luckyj.
... Hopkins Part II The Performance of Maternal Authority 7 'Smocksecrets': Birth and Women's Mysteries on the Early Modern Stage Janelle Jenstad 8 Disciplining the Mother in SeventeenthCentury English Puritanism Christina Luckyj.
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... authority and maternal erasure. The essays in this volume, as they consider the construction and representation of maternity and the maternal body, make clear that maternity is performed and performative, both on stage and off. Our ...
... authority and maternal erasure. The essays in this volume, as they consider the construction and representation of maternity and the maternal body, make clear that maternity is performed and performative, both on stage and off. Our ...
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... Authority', 'The Performance of Maternal Suffering' and 'The Performance of Maternal Erasure' explore fictional, dramatic, didactic, prescriptive, autobiographical, poetic and even architectural representations of the maternal. 'The ...
... Authority', 'The Performance of Maternal Suffering' and 'The Performance of Maternal Erasure' explore fictional, dramatic, didactic, prescriptive, autobiographical, poetic and even architectural representations of the maternal. 'The ...
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... authority operating on the political and theatrical stage in relation to the public and theatrical display of the pregnant body. She connects the idea of the King's Two Bodies to the explicit doubleness of pregnancy as displayed by the ...
... authority operating on the political and theatrical stage in relation to the public and theatrical display of the pregnant body. She connects the idea of the King's Two Bodies to the explicit doubleness of pregnancy as displayed by the ...
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... Authority. At the same time early modern discourses rehearsed the intricacies and contradictions of pregnancy, they reclaimed its representation and meanings. 'The Performance of Maternal Authority' focuses on the revision and ...
... Authority. At the same time early modern discourses rehearsed the intricacies and contradictions of pregnancy, they reclaimed its representation and meanings. 'The Performance of Maternal Authority' focuses on the revision and ...
Contents
Adultery and Superfetation in | |
Deceptive Maternities and the Failure of New Comedy | |
Maternity in A Woman Killed with Kindness | |
Birth and Womens Mysteries on the Early | |
Disciplining the Mother in SeventeenthCentury English Puritanism | |
Male Mothering and The Tempest | |
Churching in Early | |
Memory and Maternity in Shakespeares Antony | |
Maternity and Child Loss in Stuart Womens Diaries | |
Murder as Birth in Macbeth | |
Tamburlaines Domestic Threat | |
Circumcision in The Merchant of Venice | |
Selected Bibliography | |
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Performing Maternity in Early Modern England Kathryn M. Moncrief,Kathryn Read McPherson Limited preview - 2007 |
Performing Maternity in Early Modern England Kathryn Read McPherson,Kathryn M. Moncrief No preview available - 2016 |
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