Maternity and romance narratives in early modern England
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Maternity and romance narratives in early modern England
(Women and gender in the early modern world)
Ashgate, c2015
- : hbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Though recent scholarship has focused both on motherhood and on romance literature in early modern England, until now, no full length volume has addressed the notable intersections between the two topics. This collection contributes to the scholarly investigation of maternity in early modern England by scrutinizing romance narratives in various forms, considering motherhood not as it was actually lived, but as it was figured in the fantasy world of romance by authors ranging from Edmund Spenser to Margaret Cavendish. Contributors explore the traditional association between romance and women, both as readers of fiction and as tellers of 'old wives' tales,' as well as the tendency of romance plots, with their emphasis on the family and its reproduction, to foreground matters of maternity. Collectively, the essays in this volume invite reflection on the uses to which Renaissance culture put maternal stereotypes (the virgin mother, the cruel step-dame), as well as the powerful fears and desires that mothers evoke, assuage and sometimes express in the fantasy world of romance.
Table of Contents
- 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.
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