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PERFORMING MATERNITY IN EARLY MODERN ENGLAND
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By: |
Dr Kathryn R. McPherson, Dr Kathryn M. Moncrief (Editor), Dr. Helen Ostovich |
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ISBN 10: |
0754661172 |
ISBN 13: |
9780754661177 |
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Publisher: |
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD |
Pub. date: |
28 October, 2007 |
Series: |
Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama |
Pages: |
262 |
Description: |
Features essays that share a common concern with exploring maternity's cultural representation, performative aspects and practical consequences in the period from 1540-1690. This work includes essays that interrogate how early modern texts depict fertility, conception, delivery, and gendered constructions of maternity. |
Synopsis: |
Performing Maternity in Early Modern England features essays that share a common concern with exploring maternity's cultural representation, performative aspects and practical consequences in the period from 1540-1690. The essays interrogate how early modern texts depict fertility, conception, delivery and gendered constructions of maternity by analyzing a wealth of historical documents and images in conjunction with dramatic and non-dramatic literary texts. They emphasize that the embodied, repeated and public nature of maternity defines it as inherently performative and ultimately central to the production of gender identity during the early modern period. |
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Includes 14 b&w illustrations |
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UK |
Imprint: |
Ashgate Publishing Limited |
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