Plotting Motherhood in Medieval, Early Modern, and Modern Literature (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)

This book explores the inconsistent literary representations of motherhood in diverse texts ranging from the fourth to the twentieth centuries. Mary Beth Rose unearths plots startling in their frequency and redundancy that struggle to accommodate -or to obliterate-the complex assertions of maternal authority as it challenges traditional family and social structures. The analysis engages two mother plots: the dead mother plot, in which the mother is dying or dead; and the living mother plot, in which the mother is alive and through her very presence in the text, puts often unbearable pressure on the mechanics of the plot. These plots reappear and are transformed by authors as diverse in chronology and use of literary form as Augustine, Shakespeare, Milton, Oscar Wilde, and Tony Kushner. The book argues that, insofar as women become the second sex, it is not because they are females per se but because they are mothers; at the same time the analysis probes the transformative political and social potential of motherhood as it appears in contemporary texts like Angels in America.

General

Imprint:	Springer International Publishing AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	Early Modern Cultural Studies 1500-1700
Release date:	February 2017
First published:	2017
Authors:	Mary Beth Rose
Dimensions:	210 x 148 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	192
Edition:	1st ed. 2017
ISBN-13:	978-3-319-40453-0
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > Classical, early & medieval Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General Books > Humanities > History > World history > 500 to 1500 Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > General Books > History > World history > 500 to 1500 Promotions
LSN:	3-319-40453-9
Barcode:	9783319404530

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