Plotting Motherhood in Medieval, Early Modern, and Modern Literature
This book explores the inconsistent literary representations of motherhood in diverse texts ranging from the fourth to the twentieth centuries. Mary Beth Rose unearths plots startling in their frequency and redundancy that struggle to accommodate —or to obliterate—the complex assertions of maternal...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Springer International Publishing
2017.
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| Colección: | Early Modern Cultural Studies.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b35691189*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Plotting Motherhood in Medieval, Early Modern, and Modern Literature
- One: Time, Narrative, and Maternity in Augustine’s Confessions
- Chapter Two: Maternal Abandonment, Maternal Deprivation: Tales of Griselda in Boccaccio, Petrarch, Chaucer, and Shakespeare
- Chapter Three: Maternal Authority and the Conflicts it Generates in Early Modern Dramatic Plots
- Chapter Four: Milton and Maternal Authority: Why is the Virgin Mary in Paradise Regained?
- Chapter Five: The Emergence of the Mother in Oscar Wilde’s Comic Plots
- Chapter Six: Angels in America: The Transformation of Maternal Plotting and the Transformation of the Family
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index. .
