Shakespearean maternities : crises on conception in early modern England / / Chris Laoutaris
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| Autore: |
Laoutaris Chris
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| Titolo: |
Shakespearean maternities : crises on conception in early modern England / / Chris Laoutaris
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| Pubblicazione: | Edinburgh, : Edinburgh University Press, c2008 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| 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 | |
| Classificazione: | HI 3385 |
| Note generali: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015). |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | This study looks at the epistemological significance of maternity in early modern England. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Shakespearean maternities |
| ISBN: | 0-7486-7168-4 |
| 1-281-94769-5 | |
| 9786611947699 | |
| 0-7486-3042-2 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910968876203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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