Sara D Luttfring

Bodies, Speech, and Reproductive Knowledge in Early Modern England

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume examines early modern representations of women's reproductive knowledge through new readings of plays, monstrous birth pamphlets, medical treatises, court records, histories, and more, which are often interpreted as depicting female reproductive bodies as passive, silenced objects of male control and critique. Luttfring argues instea

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9780367871918
• ISBN-10: 0367871912
• Artikelnr.: 58482797

Autorenporträt

Sara D. Luttfring is Assistant Professor of English at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College. Her work has appeared in the journals Renaissance Drama and Huntington Library Quarterly, as well as in the edited collection Staging the Blazon in Early Modern English Theater (2013).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Representing Female Reproductive Bodies and Women's Speech in Early
Modern England 2. The Politics of Virginity in The Changeling and the Essex
Divorce 3. Pregnancy, Interiority, and the Circulation of Knowledge in
Early Modern Medical Treatises and 'Tis Pity She's a Whore 4. Birthing Room
Speech and the Construction of Patriarchal Authority in A Chaste Maid in
Cheapside and Early Modern Gossip Satire 5. Parental Influence and
(De)Formative Speech in Early Modern Monstrous Birth Pamphlets and The
Winter's Tale