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Pregnant Bodies from Shakespeare to Ford - A Phenomenology of Pregnancy in English Early Modern Drama (Hardcover)
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Pregnant Bodies from Shakespeare to Ford - A Phenomenology of Pregnancy in English Early Modern Drama (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in Literature and Health Humanities
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This book explores how the pregnant body is portrayed, perceived
and enacted in Shakespeare's and his contemporaries' drama by means
of a phenomenological analysis and a recourse to early modern
popular medical discourse on reproduction. Phenomenology of
pregnancy is a fairly new and radical body of philosophy that
questions the post-Cartesian chasm of an almost autonomous reason
and an enclosed and self-sufficient (male) body as foundations of
identity. Early modern drama, as is argued, was written and staged
at the backdrop of revolutionary changes in medicine and science
where old and new theories on the embodied self-clashed. In this
world where more and more men were expected to steadily grow
isolated from their bodies, the pregnant body constituted an
embattled contradiction. Indebted to the theories of embodiment
this book offers a meticulous and detailed investigation of a
plethora of pregnant characters and their "pregnant embodiment" in
the pre-modern works by Shakespeare, Middleton, Webster and Ford.
The analysis in each chapter argues for an indivisible link between
an intensely embodied experience of pregnancy as enacted in space
and identity-shaping processes resulting in a more acute sense of
selfhood and agency. Despite seemingly disparate experiences of the
selected heroines and the repeated attempts at containment of their
"unruly" bodies, the ever transforming and "spatial" pregnant
identities remain loci of embodied selfhood and agency. This book
provocatively argues that fictional characters' experience reflects
tangible realities of early modern women, while often deflecting
the scientific consensus on reproduction in the period.
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