Maternity and Romance Narratives in Early Modern England
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Christ Child
Cruel Step-dame
Early Modern Englishwomen
early modern literature
Early Modern Women's Life
Early Modern Women’s Life
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Faerie Queene
family reproduction narratives
Father Daughter Reunion
Female Life Writers
literary motherhood analysis
Love's Victory
Love’s Victory
Mary Wroth
Maternal Agency
maternal figures in English romance
maternal stereotypes
Merlin's Prophecy
Merlin’s Prophecy
Musei Vaticani
Performative Maternity
Putative Errancies
Renaissance gender studies
Shakespeare's Late Plays
Shakespeare's Late Romances
Shakespeare's Romances
Shakespeare’s Late Plays
Shakespeare’s Late Romances
Shakespeare’s Romances
Storytelling Mothers
Thompson's Motif Index
Thompson’s Motif Index
Vice Versa
Wet Nurse
women's storytelling traditions
Wroth's Love's Victory
Wroth's Play
Wroth’s Love’s Victory
Wroth’s Play
Young Man
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- ISBN 9781472462244
- Weight: 590g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 09 Dec 2015
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
Karen Bamford is Professor of English at Mount Allison University, Canada, and author of Sexual Violence on the Jacobean Stage (2000). She is also co-editor of Approaches to Teaching English Renaissance Drama (2002); Oral Traditions and Gender in Early Modern Literary Texts (Ashgate, 2008); and Shakespeare’s Comedies of Love: Essays in Honour of Alexander Leggatt (2008). Naomi J. Miller is Professor of English at Smith College, USA and author of Changing the Subject: Mary Wroth and Figurations of Gender in Early Modern England (1996). She is also the co-editor of Maternal Measures (Ashgate, 2000); Sibling Relations and Gender in the Early Modern World (Ashgate, 2006); Gender and Early Modern Constructions of Childhood (Ashgate, 2011) and Re-Reading Mary Wroth (2015).
