Louis Schwartz

Milton and Maternal Mortality

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Examines the impact of maternal mortality on Milton's life and work, and provides important readings of his major poems.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 282
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Mai 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 413g
• ISBN-13: 9781107403055
• ISBN-10: 1107403057
• Artikelnr.: 33628039

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; Part I. Behind the Veil: Childbirth and the Nature of
Obstetric Anxiety in Early Modern England: 1. 'Exquisitt torment' and
'infinitt grace': maternal suffering and the rites of childbirth; 2. When
things went wrong: maternal mortality and obstetric anxiety; 3. Religious
frameworks; Part II. 'Scarce-Well-Lighted Flame': The Representation of
Maternal Mortality in Milton's Early Poetry: 4. 'Too much conceaving':
Milton's 'On Shakespear'; 5. 'Tears of perfect moan': Milton and the
Marchioness of Winchester; 6. 'Farr above in spangled sheen': A Mask and
its epilogue; Part III. Conscious Terrors: The Problem of Maternal
Mortality in Milton's Later Poetry: 7. The wide wound and the veil: Sonnet
23 and the birth of Eve; 8. 'Conscious terrors' and the 'Promised Seed':
seventeenth-century obstetrics and the allegory of sin and death; 9. The
'Womb of waters' and the 'Abortive Gulph': on the reproductive imagery of
Milton's cosmos.