Scotland and the Union 1707-2007
This study looks at the epistemological significance of maternity in early modern England. It reaches beyond the domestic sphere of the rituals of childbirth, midwifery and wet-nursing and the dominant male discourses articulate in early conduct manuals, sermons and obstetrical tracts. In this book maternity is put centre stage relation to the work of Shakespeare.Exploring 'anatomy' in Hamlet, 'natural history' in The Tempest, 'demonology' in Macbeth, and 'heraldry' in Antony and Cleopatra, this book reveals the ways in which the maternal body was figured in, and in turn contributed towards the re-conceptualisation of, bodies of knowledge…
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- ISBN: 978-0-7486-3541-2
- EAN: 9780748635412
- Produktnummer: 22680078
- Verlag: Edinburgh Univ Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
- Seitenangabe: 256 S.
- Masse: H24.2 cm x B16.3 cm x D2.2 cm 550 g
- Auflage: New
- Gewicht: 550
- Sonstiges: Ab 22 J.
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Edited by T. M. Devine
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