Shakespearean maternities: crises of conception in early modern England
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1. Verfasser: Laoutaris, Chris (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press c2008
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
A highly original, interdisciplinary scholarly study of the epistemological significance of maternity in early modern England
Introduction - Constructing maternal knowledge -- - 1 - Flesh and stone : dissecting maternity in the theatre of anatomy. -- - Behold the woman : the Renaissance anatomist in the satyr's mask -- - Hearts and hands : the satirical disclosures of maternity in Shakespeare's Hamlet -- - 2 - The cabinet of wonders : monstrous conceptions in the theatre of nature. -- - Wonders of common things : the natural history of maternity and the Renaissance garden-grotto -- - Above the beast : the monster and the natural historian in Shakespeare's Tempest -- - 3 - Strange labours : maternity and maleficium in the theatre of justice. -- - Breaching the wall : the archaeologies of witchcraft and the maternal body in early modern England -- - Poisoned chalices : the reproductive demonologies of Shakespeare's Macbeth -- - 4 - Speaking stones : memory and maternity in the theatre of death. -- - Voce pia mater : memoralising mothers and the death-ritual in early modern England -- - A celerity in dying : the maternal postures of death in Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra -- - Postscript - Our maternities : the historical legacy
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xv, 304 p.)
ISBN:0748630422
9780748624362
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