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modern texts depict fertility, conception, delivery and gendered constructions of maternity by analyzing a wealth of historical documents and images in conjunction with dramatic and non-dramatic literary texts.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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... Motherhood in literature 3. English drama – 17th century – History and criticism 4. English drama – Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500–1600 – History and criticism 5. Childbirth in literature 6. Pregnancy in literature I. Moncrief ...
... Motherhood in literature 3. English drama – 17th century – History and criticism 4. English drama – Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500–1600 – History and criticism 5. Childbirth in literature 6. Pregnancy in literature I. Moncrief ...
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... Motherhood–England–History–16th century. 8. Motherhood– England–History–17th century. I. Moncrief, Kathryn M. II. McPherson, Kathryn Read. PR658.M68P47 2007 822'.309354–dc22 2007000574 ISBN 9780754661177 (hbk) Contents List of Figures ...
... Motherhood–England–History–16th century. 8. Motherhood– England–History–17th century. I. Moncrief, Kathryn M. II. McPherson, Kathryn Read. PR658.M68P47 2007 822'.309354–dc22 2007000574 ISBN 9780754661177 (hbk) Contents List of Figures ...
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... Motherhood from the Cycle Plays to Shakespeare. She teaches literature, composition and drama courses at Grant MacEwan College in Edmonton, Alberta, and is currently working on the essay 'The Issue of the Corpus Christi Cycles, or ...
... Motherhood from the Cycle Plays to Shakespeare. She teaches literature, composition and drama courses at Grant MacEwan College in Edmonton, Alberta, and is currently working on the essay 'The Issue of the Corpus Christi Cycles, or ...
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... motherhood was also socially and historically constructed'.5 The essays here give sustained attention to the nuances of social construction in the numerous dramatic, medical, autobiographical, polemical and literary texts they address ...
... motherhood was also socially and historically constructed'.5 The essays here give sustained attention to the nuances of social construction in the numerous dramatic, medical, autobiographical, polemical and literary texts they address ...
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... motherhood in the period. The dramatists, pamphleteers, practitioners and diarists discussed in this volume often spectacularly reinscribe cultural ideas about maternity at the same time they reinvent maternal roles through the process ...
... motherhood in the period. The dramatists, pamphleteers, practitioners and diarists discussed in this volume often spectacularly reinscribe cultural ideas about maternity at the same time they reinvent maternal roles through the process ...
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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