Author: Kathryn M. Moncrief
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 9780754661177
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
The essays in Performing Maternity in Early Modern England explore maternity's textual and cultural representation, performative aspects and practical consequences from 1540-1690. They emphasize that the embodied, repeated and public nature of maternity defines it as inherently performative and ultimately central to the production of gender identity in the period.
Performing Maternity in Early Modern England
Author: Kathryn M. Moncrief
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 9780754661177
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
The essays in Performing Maternity in Early Modern England explore maternity's textual and cultural representation, performative aspects and practical consequences from 1540-1690. They emphasize that the embodied, repeated and public nature of maternity defines it as inherently performative and ultimately central to the production of gender identity in the period.
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 9780754661177
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
The essays in Performing Maternity in Early Modern England explore maternity's textual and cultural representation, performative aspects and practical consequences from 1540-1690. They emphasize that the embodied, repeated and public nature of maternity defines it as inherently performative and ultimately central to the production of gender identity in the period.
Performing Maternity in Early Modern England
Author: Kathryn R. McPherson
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351912070
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Performing Maternity in Early Modern England features essays that share a common concern with exploring maternity's cultural representation, performative aspects and practical consequences in the period from 1540-1690. The essays interrogate how early modern texts depict fertility, conception, delivery and gendered constructions of maternity by analyzing a wealth of historical documents and images in conjunction with dramatic and non-dramatic literary texts. They emphasize that the embodied, repeated and public nature of maternity defines it as inherently performative and ultimately central to the production of gender identity during the early modern period.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351912070
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Performing Maternity in Early Modern England features essays that share a common concern with exploring maternity's cultural representation, performative aspects and practical consequences in the period from 1540-1690. The essays interrogate how early modern texts depict fertility, conception, delivery and gendered constructions of maternity by analyzing a wealth of historical documents and images in conjunction with dramatic and non-dramatic literary texts. They emphasize that the embodied, repeated and public nature of maternity defines it as inherently performative and ultimately central to the production of gender identity during the early modern period.
Maternity and Romance Narratives in Early Modern England
Author: Professor Karen Bamford
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 1472462246
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Though recent scholarship has focused on both maternity and romance literature in early modern England, this is the first full length scholarly volume to address the notable intersections between the two topics. Scrutinizing romance narratives in various forms, the collection explores motherhood as it was figured in the fantasy world of romance by authors ranging from Edmund Spenser to Margaret Cavendish.
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 1472462246
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Though recent scholarship has focused on both maternity and romance literature in early modern England, this is the first full length scholarly volume to address the notable intersections between the two topics. Scrutinizing romance narratives in various forms, the collection explores motherhood as it was figured in the fantasy world of romance by authors ranging from Edmund Spenser to Margaret Cavendish.
Performing Pedagogy in Early Modern England
Author: Kathryn M. Moncrief
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 1409436101
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
The essays in this collection question the extent to which education in early modern England, an activity pursued in the home, classroom, and the church led to, mirrored and was perhaps transformed by moments of instruction on stage. Contributors examine how educational theories and practices intersect with and construct ideas about gender, class, and national identity and investigate how education was performed and performative, both on stage and off.
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 1409436101
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
The essays in this collection question the extent to which education in early modern England, an activity pursued in the home, classroom, and the church led to, mirrored and was perhaps transformed by moments of instruction on stage. Contributors examine how educational theories and practices intersect with and construct ideas about gender, class, and national identity and investigate how education was performed and performative, both on stage and off.
Performing Widowhood on the Early Modern English Stage
Author: Asuka Kimura
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 1501513893
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
The deaths of husbands radically changed women’s lives in the early modern period. While losing male protection, widows acquired rare opportunities for social and economic independence. Placed between death and life, female submissiveness and male audacity, chastity and sexual awareness, or tragedy and comedy, widows were highly problematic in early modern patriarchal society. They were also popular figures in the theatre, arousing both male desire and anxiety. Now how did Shakespeare and his contemporaries represent them on the stage? What kind of costume, props, and gestures were employed? What influence did actors, spectators, and play-space have? This book offers a fresh and incisive examination of the theatrical representation of widows by discussing the material conditions of the early modern stage. It is also the only comprehensive study of this topic covering all three phases of Elizabethan, Jacobean, and Caroline drama.
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 1501513893
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
The deaths of husbands radically changed women’s lives in the early modern period. While losing male protection, widows acquired rare opportunities for social and economic independence. Placed between death and life, female submissiveness and male audacity, chastity and sexual awareness, or tragedy and comedy, widows were highly problematic in early modern patriarchal society. They were also popular figures in the theatre, arousing both male desire and anxiety. Now how did Shakespeare and his contemporaries represent them on the stage? What kind of costume, props, and gestures were employed? What influence did actors, spectators, and play-space have? This book offers a fresh and incisive examination of the theatrical representation of widows by discussing the material conditions of the early modern stage. It is also the only comprehensive study of this topic covering all three phases of Elizabethan, Jacobean, and Caroline drama.
Gender and Early Modern Constructions of Childhood
Author: Naomi J. Miller
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 9781409429975
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Drawing on art history, literary studies and social history, the essays in this volume explore a range of intersections between gender and constructions of childhood in the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries in Italy, England, France and Spain. Contributors examine representations of children and childhood in a range of sources from the period, from paintings and poetry to legal records and personal correspondence.
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 9781409429975
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Drawing on art history, literary studies and social history, the essays in this volume explore a range of intersections between gender and constructions of childhood in the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries in Italy, England, France and Spain. Contributors examine representations of children and childhood in a range of sources from the period, from paintings and poetry to legal records and personal correspondence.
Representations of Elizabeth I in Early Modern Culture
Author: A. Petrina
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230307264
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
The volume explores Elizabeth I's impact on English and European culture during her life and after her death, through her own writing as well as through contemporary and later writers. The contributors are codicologists, historians and literary critics, offering a varied reading of the Queen and of her cultural inheritance.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230307264
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
The volume explores Elizabeth I's impact on English and European culture during her life and after her death, through her own writing as well as through contemporary and later writers. The contributors are codicologists, historians and literary critics, offering a varied reading of the Queen and of her cultural inheritance.
Carrying All Before Her
Author: Chelsea Phillips
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 1644532484
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Carrying All Before Her recovers the stories of six eighteenth-century celebrity actresses who performed during pregnancy, melding public and private, persona and person, domestic and professional labor and helping to shape wider social, medical, and political conversations about gender, sexuality, pregnancy, and motherhood. Their stories deepen our understanding of celebrity, repertory, and theatre's connection to a wider social world, and challenge notions of women's agency and power in and beyond the professional theatre.
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 1644532484
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Carrying All Before Her recovers the stories of six eighteenth-century celebrity actresses who performed during pregnancy, melding public and private, persona and person, domestic and professional labor and helping to shape wider social, medical, and political conversations about gender, sexuality, pregnancy, and motherhood. Their stories deepen our understanding of celebrity, repertory, and theatre's connection to a wider social world, and challenge notions of women's agency and power in and beyond the professional theatre.
The Ashgate Research Companion to Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe
Author: Jane Couchman
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317041054
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 573
Book Description
Over the past three decades scholars have transformed the study of women and gender in early modern Europe. This Ashgate Research Companion presents an authoritative review of the current research on women and gender in early modern Europe from a multi-disciplinary perspective. The authors examine women’s lives, ideologies of gender, and the differences between ideology and reality through the recent research across many disciplines, including history, literary studies, art history, musicology, history of science and medicine, and religious studies. The book is intended as a resource for scholars and students of Europe in the early modern period, for those who are just beginning to explore these issues and this time period, as well as for scholars learning about aspects of the field in which they are not yet an expert. The companion offers not only a comprehensive examination of the current research on women in early modern Europe, but will act as a spark for new research in the field.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317041054
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 573
Book Description
Over the past three decades scholars have transformed the study of women and gender in early modern Europe. This Ashgate Research Companion presents an authoritative review of the current research on women and gender in early modern Europe from a multi-disciplinary perspective. The authors examine women’s lives, ideologies of gender, and the differences between ideology and reality through the recent research across many disciplines, including history, literary studies, art history, musicology, history of science and medicine, and religious studies. The book is intended as a resource for scholars and students of Europe in the early modern period, for those who are just beginning to explore these issues and this time period, as well as for scholars learning about aspects of the field in which they are not yet an expert. The companion offers not only a comprehensive examination of the current research on women in early modern Europe, but will act as a spark for new research in the field.
Women in Shakespeare
Author: Alison Findlay
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1472557514
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 677
Book Description
This is a comprehensive reference guide examining the language employed by Shakespeare to represent women in the full range of his poetry and plays. Including over 350 entries, Alison Findlay shows the role of women within Shakespearean drama, their representations on the Shakespearean stage, and their place in Shakespeare's personal and professional lives.
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1472557514
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 677
Book Description
This is a comprehensive reference guide examining the language employed by Shakespeare to represent women in the full range of his poetry and plays. Including over 350 entries, Alison Findlay shows the role of women within Shakespearean drama, their representations on the Shakespearean stage, and their place in Shakespeare's personal and professional lives.