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Maternity and Romance Narratives in Early Modern England
Women and Gender in the Early Modern World Series
Coordinators: Bamford Karen, Miller Naomi J.
Language: EnglishKeywords
Young Man; Book III; Musei Vaticani; Christ Child; Wroth’s Love’s Victory; Maternal Agency; Thompson’s Motif Index; Wroth’s Play; Female Life Writers; Cruel Step-dame; Vice Versa; Wet Nurse; Love’s Victory; Early Modern Women’s Life; Performative Maternity; Mary Wroth; Storytelling Mothers; Faerie Queene; Shakespeare’s Late Romances; Early Modern Englishwomen; Shakespeare’s Late Plays; Father Daughter Reunion; Shakespeare’s Romances; Merlin’s Prophecy; Putative Errancies
· 15.6x23.4 cm · Hardback
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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.