Marking Maternity in Middle English Romance

Mothers, Identity, and Contamination

A. Florschuetz (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

232 Seiten

2015 | 1st ed. 2014
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-349-46572-9 (ISBN)

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Working at the intersection of medical, theological, cultural, and literary studies, this book offers an innovative approach to understanding maternity, genealogy and social identity as they are represented in popular literature in late-medieval England.

Angela L. Florschuetz is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Trinity University.

Introduction: The Mother's Mark and the Maternal Monster 1. Women's Secrets and Men's Interests: Rituals of Childbirth and Northern Octavian 2. "That Moder Ever Hym Fed": Nursing and Other Anthropophagies in Sir Gowther 3. 'Youre Owene Thyng:' The Clerk's Tale and Fantasies of Autonomous Male Reproduction 4. 'A Mooder He Hath, But Fader Hath He Noon:' Maternal Transmission and Fatherless Sons: The Man of Law's Tale 5. Forgetting Eleanor: Richard Coer de Lyon and England's Maternal Aporia 6. Monstrous Maternity and the Mother-Mark: Melusine as Genealogical Phantom Afterword: Abjection and the Mother at the End of this Book

Erscheinungsdatum	06.03.2022
Reihe/Serie	The New Middle Ages
Zusatzinfo	XXIII, 232 p.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
Schlagworte	England • English literature • Identity • Literary Studies • Middle Ages • Transmission • Women
ISBN-10	1-349-46572-0 / 1349465720
ISBN-13	978-1-349-46572-9 / 9781349465729
Zustand	Neuware