Though recent scholarship has focused on both maternity and romance literature in early modern England, this is the first full-length scholarly volume to address the notable intersections between the two topics. Scrutinizing romance narratives in various forms, the collection explores motherhood as it was figured in the fantasy world of romance by authors ranging from Edmund Spenser to Margaret Cavendish.
Though recent scholarship has focused on both maternity and romance literature in early modern England, this is the first full-length scholarly volume to address the notable intersections between the two topics. Scrutinizing romance narratives in various forms, the collection explores motherhood as it was figured in the fantasy world of romance by authors ranging from Edmund Spenser to Margaret Cavendish.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Karen Bamford is Professor of English at Mount Allison University, Canada, and author of Sexual Violence on the Jacobean Stage (2000). She is also co-editor of Approaches to Teaching English Renaissance Drama (2002); Oral Traditions and Gender in Early Modern Literary Texts (Ashgate, 2008); and Shakespeare's Comedies of Love: Essays in Honour of Alexander Leggatt (2008). Naomi J. Miller is Professor of English at Smith College, USA and author of Changing the Subject: Mary Wroth and Figurations of Gender in Early Modern England (1996). She is also the co-editor of Maternal Measures (Ashgate, 2000); Sibling Relations and Gender in the Early Modern World (Ashgate, 2006); Gender and Early Modern Constructions of Childhood (Ashgate, 2011) and Re-Reading Mary Wroth (2015).
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction: maternal devices and desires in early modern romance, Karen Bamford. Part I Managing Maternity: While she was sleeping: Spenser's 'goodly storie' of Chrysogone, Susan C. Staub; Deferred motherhood in Spenser's Faerie Queene, Anne-Marie Strohman; 'She made her courtiers learned': Sir Philip Sidney, the Arcadia and his step-dame Elizabeth, Richard Wood; 'As like Hermione as her picture': the shadow of incest in The Winter's Tale, Diane Purkiss; Shakespeare's maternal transfigurations, Maria Del Sapio Garbero; 'It hath happened all as I would have had it': maternal desire in Shakespearean romances, Karen Bamford. Part II Voicing Maternity: Forcible love: performing maternity in Renaissance romance, Naomi J. Miller; 'Thus did he make her breeding his only business and employment': absent mothers and male mentors in Margaret Cavendish's romances', Marianne Micros; The maternal rejection of romance, Julie A. Eckerle. Afterword: untellable tales, Clare R. Kinney; Index.
Introduction: maternal devices and desires in early modern romance, Karen Bamford. Part I Managing Maternity: While she was sleeping: Spenser's 'goodly storie' of Chrysogone, Susan C. Staub; Deferred motherhood in Spenser's Faerie Queene, Anne-Marie Strohman; 'She made her courtiers learned': Sir Philip Sidney, the Arcadia and his step-dame Elizabeth, Richard Wood; 'As like Hermione as her picture': the shadow of incest in The Winter's Tale, Diane Purkiss; Shakespeare's maternal transfigurations, Maria Del Sapio Garbero; 'It hath happened all as I would have had it': maternal desire in Shakespearean romances, Karen Bamford. Part II Voicing Maternity: Forcible love: performing maternity in Renaissance romance, Naomi J. Miller; 'Thus did he make her breeding his only business and employment': absent mothers and male mentors in Margaret Cavendish's romances', Marianne Micros; The maternal rejection of romance, Julie A. Eckerle. Afterword: untellable tales, Clare R. Kinney; Index.
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