Kathryn R. McPherson

Performing Maternity in Early Modern England

Herausgeber: Moncrief, Kathryn M.

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Produktbeschreibung

Performing 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modern texts depict fertility, conception, delivery and gendered constructions of maternity by analyzing a wealth of historical documents and images in conjunction with dramatic and non-dramatic literary texts.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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 266
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. November 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 390g
• ISBN-13: 9781138251854
• ISBN-10: 1138251852
• Artikelnr.: 57057860

Autorenporträt

Kathryn M. Moncrief is Associate Professor of English at Washington College, Maryland, USA. Kathryn R. McPherson is Associate Professor of English at Utah Valley State College, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Embodied and enacted: performances of maternity in early modern
England, Kathryn M. Moncrief and Kathryn R. McPherson. Part I The
Performance of Pregnancy: 'So troubled with the mother': the politics of
pregnancy in The Duchess of Malfi, Sid Ray; 'Show me a child begotten of
thy body that I am father to': pregnancy, paternity and the problem of
evidence in All's Well That Ends Well, Kathryn M. Moncrief; Hermione's
suspicious body: adultery and superfetation in The Winter's Tale, Michelle
Ephraim; False fruit: deceptive maternities and the failure of new comedy
in Middleton's A Mad World, My Masters, Robert Bell; Maternity in A Woman
Killed With Kindness, Lisa Hopkins. Part II The Performance of Maternal
Authority: 'Smock-secrets': birth and women's mysteries on the early modern
stage, Janelle Jenstad; Disciplining the mother in 17th-century English
Puritanism, Christina Luckyj; Male mothering and The Tempest, Suzanne
Penuel. Part III The Performance of Maternal Suffering: Dramatizing
deliverance and devotion: churching in early modern England, Kathryn R.
McPherson; Speaking stones: memory and maternity in Shakespeare's Antony
and Cleopatra, Chris Laoutaris; Maternity and child loss in Stuart women's
diaries, Avra Kouffman. Part IV The Performance of Maternal Erasure:
Nursing and influence in Pandosto and The Winter's Tale, Donna C. Woodford;
Murder as birth in Macbeth, Gloria Olchowy; Tamburlaine's domestic threat,
Mary Stripling; 'I'll mar the young clerk's pen': sodomy, paternity and
circumcision in The Merchant of Venice, Douglas A. Brookes; Selected
Bibliography; Index.