Performing Maternity in Early Modern England

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Kathryn M. Moncrief, Kathryn Read McPherson
Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 01.01.2007 - 247 Seiten
The essays here share a common concern with exploring maternity's cultural representation, performative aspects and practical consequences in the period from 1540-1690. They look at how early modern texts depict fertility, conception, delivery and gendered constructions of maternity.

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circa 1595
2
The Performance of Maternal Suffering
10
2
17
5
46
6
61
7
87
9
102
Male Mothering and The Tempest
115
Courtesy of the Dean and Chapter of Westminster
144
Maternity and Child Loss in Stuart Womens Diaries
171
Murder as Birth in Macbeth
197
Tamburlaines Domestic Threat
211
Selected Bibliography
239
Urheberrecht

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