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modern texts depict fertility, conception, delivery and gendered constructions of maternity by analyzing a wealth of historical documents and images in conjunction with dramatic and non-dramatic literary texts.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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... sons. Finally, in '“I'll mar the young clerk's pen”: Sodomy, Paternity, and Circumcision in The Merchant of Venice', Douglas Brooks scrutinizes the links between paternity and writing technologies in Shakespeare's play, as well as the ...
... sons. Finally, in '“I'll mar the young clerk's pen”: Sodomy, Paternity, and Circumcision in The Merchant of Venice', Douglas Brooks scrutinizes the links between paternity and writing technologies in Shakespeare's play, as well as the ...
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... son's stead, the regency only falling to her because her son is still too young to assume the responsibilities of duke. Explicitly, that she has carried her son's body within her own grants the Duchess her son's authority; her pregnancy ...
... son's stead, the regency only falling to her because her son is still too young to assume the responsibilities of duke. Explicitly, that she has carried her son's body within her own grants the Duchess her son's authority; her pregnancy ...
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... son, who, when he comes of age, will rule the duchy. Until that time, however, she is both her son's and his duchy's 'head'. She is therefore a ruler who integrates the head and body, which were oddly separated and hierarchized in early ...
... son, who, when he comes of age, will rule the duchy. Until that time, however, she is both her son's and his duchy's 'head'. She is therefore a ruler who integrates the head and body, which were oddly separated and hierarchized in early ...
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... son by the former duke – awaiting his majority. ProElizabeth political theorists such as John Aylmer tried to get around the problem by claiming that where the husband may be the head in the family, in the state, the head may be male or ...
... son by the former duke – awaiting his majority. ProElizabeth political theorists such as John Aylmer tried to get around the problem by claiming that where the husband may be the head in the family, in the state, the head may be male or ...
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... son as Duke of Amalfirather than the young duke (the Duchess's son by her deceased husband), this philosophy of merit bears real fruit. Most editors note that in this part of the narrative Webster departs from The Palace of Pleasure ...
... son as Duke of Amalfirather than the young duke (the Duchess's son by her deceased husband), this philosophy of merit bears real fruit. Most editors note that in this part of the narrative Webster departs from The Palace of Pleasure ...
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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