Title: Maternity and romance narratives in early modern England /
Authors: Bamford, Karen; Miller, Naomi J., 1960-
Year: 2015
Subjects: English literature History and criticism; Romances, English History and criticism.; Motherhood in literature.; English literature Early modern; Motherhood in literature.; Romances, English
Contents: While she was sleeping: Spenser's "goodly storie" of Chrysogone / Susan C. Staub -- Deferred motherhood in Spenser's The Faerie Queene / Anne-Marie Strohman -- "She made her courtiers learned": Sir Philip Sidney, the Arcadia and step-dame Elizabeth / Richard Wood -- "As like Hermione as is her picture": the shadow of incest in The Winter's Tale / Diane Purkiss -- Shakespeare's maternal transfigurations / Maria del Sapio Garbero -- "It hath happened all as I would have had it": maternal desires in Shakespearean romance / Karen Bamford -- Forcible love: performing maternity in Renaissance romance / Naomi J. Miller -- "Thus did he make her breeding his only business and employment": absent mothers and male mentors in Margaret Cavendish's romances / Marianne Micros -- The maternal rejection of romance / Julie A. Eckerle -- Afterword: Untellable tales / Clare R. Kinney.