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Maternity and Romance Narratives in Early Modern England

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Full Title

Maternity and Romance Narratives in Early Modern England

Author(s)

Bamford, Karen, Professor

Edition
ISBN

9781472462268, 9781472462244

Publisher

Routledge

Format

PDF and EPUB

Description

Though recent scholarship has focused both on motherhood and on romance literature in early modern England, until now, no full length volume has addressed the notable intersections between the two topics. This collection contributes to the scholarly investigation of maternity in early modern England by scrutinizing romance narratives in various forms, considering motherhood not as it was actually lived, but as it was figured in the fantasy world of romance by authors ranging from Edmund Spenser to Margaret Cavendish. Contributors explore the traditional association between romance and women, both as readers of fiction and as tellers of