Maternity and Romance Narratives in Early Modern England
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-4724-6224-4 (ISBN)
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).
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.
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 9.12.2015 |
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Reihe/Serie | Women and Gender in the Early Modern World |
Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
Gewicht | 589 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
ISBN-10 | 1-4724-6224-6 / 1472462246 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-4724-6224-4 / 9781472462244 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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