A. Florschuetz
Palgrave Macmillan US
e druk, 2015
9781349465729
Marking Maternity in Middle English Romance
Mothers, Identity, and Contamination
Specificaties
Paperback, blz.
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Engels
Palgrave Macmillan US |
2015
ISBN13: 9781349465729
Rubricering
Onderdeel van serie
The New Middle Ages
Levertijd ongeveer 9 werkdagen
Gratis verzonden
Samenvatting
Working at the intersection of medical, theological, cultural, and literary studies, this book offers an innovative approach to understanding maternity, genealogy and social identity as they are represented in popular literature in late-medieval England.
Specificaties
ISBN13:9781349465729
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:paperback
Uitgever:Palgrave Macmillan US
Serie:The New Middle Ages
Inhoudsopgave
Introduction: The Mother's Mark and the Maternal Monster 1. Women's Secrets and Men's Interests: Rituals of Childbirth and Northern Octavian 2. "That Moder Ever Hym Fed": Nursing and Other Anthropophagies in Sir Gowther 3. 'Youre Owene Thyng:' The Clerk's Tale and Fantasies of Autonomous Male Reproduction 4. 'A Mooder He Hath, But Fader Hath He Noon:' Maternal Transmission and Fatherless Sons: The Man of Law's Tale 5. Forgetting Eleanor: Richard Coer de Lyon and England's Maternal Aporia 6. Monstrous Maternity and the Mother-Mark: Melusine as Genealogical Phantom Afterword: Abjection and the Mother at the End of this Book