Plotting Motherhood in Medieval, Early Modern, and Modern Literature

AvMary Beth Rose

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

Del i serien Early Modern Cultural Studies 1500–1700

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Beskrivning

The analysis engages two mother plots: the dead mother plot, in which the mother is dying or dead; and the living mother plot, in which the mother is alive and through her very presence in the text, puts often unbearable pressure on the mechanics of the plot.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2017-02-06
Mått:148 x 210 x 18 mm
Vikt:404 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Early Modern Cultural Studies 1500–1700
Antal sidor:192
Upplaga:17001
Förlag:Springer International Publishing AG
ISBN:9783319404530

Utforska kategorier

Kulturvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Genusvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Litteraturvetenskap inom Skönlitteratur

Mer om författaren

Mary Beth Rose is Professor of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago, USA. Formerly editor of Renaissance Drama, she is the author of Gender and Heroism in Early Modern English Literature; The Expense of Spirit: Love and Sexuality in English Renaissance Drama; and co-editor of Elizabeth I: Collected Works.

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction: Plotting Motherhood in Medieval, Early Modern, and Modern Literature.- One: Time, Narrative, and Maternity in Augustine’s Confessions.- Chapter Two: Maternal Abandonment, Maternal Deprivation: Tales of Griselda in Boccaccio, Petrarch, Chaucer, and Shakespeare.- Chapter Three: Maternal Authority and the Conflicts it Generates in Early Modern Dramatic Plots.- Chapter Four: Milton and Maternal Authority: Why is the Virgin Mary in Paradise Regained?.- Chapter Five: The Emergence of the Mother in Oscar Wilde’s Comic Plots.- Chapter Six: Angels in America: The Transformation of Maternal Plotting and the Transformation of the Family.- Epilogue.- Bibliography.- Index.