Autore	Clarke Deborah
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Jackson, : University Press of Mississippi, 2012
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (181 p.)
Disciplina	813/.52
Soggetto topico	Faulkner, William, 1897-1962 -- Characters -- Women Motherhood in literature Mothers in literature Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century Women in literature English Languages & Literatures American Literature
ISBN	1-283-45511-0 9786613455116 1-60473-661-5
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations and Texts; 1. ""Worth Any Number of Old Ladies""; 2. Erasing and Inventing Motherhood: The Sound and the Fury and As I Lay Dying; 3. Sexuality, Inhumanity, and Violation: Sanctuary and The Hamlet; 4. Bodies and Language: Light in August and The Wild Palms; 5. Fantastic Women and Notmothers: Absalom, Absalom!; Notes; Works Cited; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; O; P; R; S; T; U; W
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910778909903321

Autore	Clarke Deborah
Edizione	[1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Jackson, : University Press of Mississippi, 2012
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (181 p.)
Disciplina	813/.52
Soggetto topico	Faulkner, William, 1897-1962 -- Characters -- Women Motherhood in literature Mothers in literature Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century Women in literature English Languages & Literatures American Literature
ISBN	1-283-45511-0 9786613455116 1-60473-661-5
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations and Texts; 1. ""Worth Any Number of Old Ladies""; 2. Erasing and Inventing Motherhood: The Sound and the Fury and As I Lay Dying; 3. Sexuality, Inhumanity, and Violation: Sanctuary and The Hamlet; 4. Bodies and Language: Light in August and The Wild Palms; 5. Fantastic Women and Notmothers: Absalom, Absalom!; Notes; Works Cited; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; O; P; R; S; T; U; W
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910808289803321

Autore	Laoutaris Chris
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2008
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (xv, 304 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
Disciplina	822.33
Soggetto topico	Motherhood in literature English drama - Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 - History and criticism
ISBN	0-7486-7168-4 1-281-94769-5 9786611947699 0-7486-3042-2
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	; 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.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910453856203321

Pubbl/distr/stampa	Lewisburg, [Pennsylvania] : , : Bucknell University Press, , 2014
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (291 p.)
Disciplina	792.02/80820941
Collana	Transits : Literature, Thought and Culture, 1650-1850
Soggetto topico	Women in the theater - Great Britain - History - 18th century Women in the theater - Great Britain - History - 19th century Actresses - Great Britain Working mothers - Great Britain English drama - 18th century - History and criticism English drama - 19th century - History and criticism English drama - Women authors - History and criticism Mothers in literature Motherhood in literature
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-61148-605-X 1-61148-604-1
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	CONTENTS; ILLUSTRATIONS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; Part I. ACTRESSES, MOTHERHOOD, AND THE PROFESSION OF THE STAGE; Chapter 1. "THE DIVIDED HEART OF THE ACTRESS: "Late Eighteenth-Century Actresses and the"Cult of Maternity"; Chapter 2. THE INCONVENIENCE OF THE FEMALE CONDITION: Anne Oldfield's Pregnancies; Chapter 3. "INIMITABLE SENSIBILITY": Susannah Cibber's Performance of Maternity; Chapter 4. WORKING MOTHERS ON THE ROMANTIC STAGE: Sarah Siddons and Mary Robinson; Part II. REPRESENTATIONS OF MOTHERS ON THE STAGE AND THE PAGE Chapter 5. REBELS FOR LOVE: Maternity, Absolutism, and the Earl of Orrery's MustaphaChapter 6. ROWE'S THE AMBITIOUS STEPMOTHER: Motherhood and the Politics of the Blended Family; Chapter 7. STAGED VIRTUE: Anastasia Robinson as Ideal Mother in Two Operas of the 1720s; Chapter 8. MATERNAL DUTIES AND FILIAL MALAPROPISMS: Frances Sheridan and the Problems of Theatrical Inheritance; Chapter 9. MY SON, MY LOVER: Gothic Contagion and Maternal Sexuality in The Mysterious Mother; Part III. ACTRESSES AND THEIR CHILDREN Chapter 10. ELIZABETH AND KEPPEL CRAVEN AND THE DOMESTIC DRAMA OF MOTHER-SON RELATIONSChapter 11. MOMMY DIVA: The Divided Loyalties of Sarah Siddons; Chapter 12. THE GERBINI LETTERS: OR, A TALE OF TWO MOTHERS; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910463306203321

Autore	Patton K
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Albany, NY, USA, : State University of New York Press, 19991101
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (215 p.)
Disciplina	813/.5099287
Collana	SUNY series in Afro-American studies Women in chains
Soggetto topico	LITERARY CRITICISM American / African American American fiction - African American authors - History and criticism - 20th century - United States Slavery in literature Women and literature - History American fiction - Women authors - History and criticism African American women - Intellectual life African American families in literature African American women in literature Mother and child in literature African Americans in literature Motherhood in literature American Literature English Languages & Literatures
ISBN	1-4384-1561-3 0-585-42475-6
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910454936803321