1st Edition
Bodies, Speech, and Reproductive Knowledge in Early Modern England
By Sara D. Luttfring
Copyright 2016
246 Pages
by
Routledge
246 Pages
by
Routledge
246 Pages
by
Routledge
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This volume examines early modern representations of women’s reproductive knowledge through new readings of plays, monstrous birth pamphlets, medical treatises, court records, histories, and more, which are often interpreted as depicting female reproductive bodies as passive, silenced objects of male control and critique. Luttfring argues instead that these texts represent women exercising... Read more
1. Representing Female Reproductive Bodies and Women’s Speech in Early Modern England 2. The Politics of Virginity in The Changeling and the Essex Divorce 3. Pregnancy, Interiority, and the Circulation of Knowledge in Early Modern Medical Treatises and ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore 4. Birthing Room Speech and the Construction of Patriarchal Authority in A Chaste Maid in Cheapside and Early Modern Gossip Satire 5. Parental Influence and (De)Formative Speech in Early Modern Monstrous Birth Pamphlets and The Winter’s Tale
Biography
Sara D. Luttfring is Assistant Professor of English at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College. Her work has appeared in the journals Renaissance Drama and Huntington Library Quarterly, as well as in the edited collection Staging the Blazon in Early Modern English Theater (2013).
"Luttfring makes a significant contribution to contemporary understandings of representations of early modern reproduction by arguing that through their "bodily narratives" women played a role in the formation of patriarchal identities during the early Stuart through the Interregnum periods." --Kathleen Kalpin Smith, University of South Carolina, Aiken, USA
