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 authority as it challenges traditional family and social structures. The analysis engages two mother plots: the dead mother plot, in which the mother is dying or dead; and the living mother plot, in which the mother is alive and through her very presence in the text, puts often unbearable pressure on the mechanics of the plot. These plots reappear…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-3-319-82105-4
- EAN: 9783319821054
- Produktnummer: 29981655
- Verlag: Springer International Publishing
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Seitenangabe: 208 S.
- Masse: H21.1 cm x B15.3 cm x D1.5 cm 285 g
- Auflage: Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 285
Über den Autor
Mary Beth Rose is Professor of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago, USA. Formerly editor of Renaissance Drama, she is the author of Gender and Heroism in Early Modern English Literature; The Expense of Spirit: Love and Sexuality in English Renaissance Drama; and co-editor of Elizabeth I: Collected Works.
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