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Pregnant Bodies from Shakespeare to Ford: A Phenomenology of Pregnancy in English Early Modern Drama book cover

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Pregnant Bodies from Shakespeare to Ford A Phenomenology of Pregnancy in English Early Modern Drama

By Katarzyna Burzyńska Copyright 2022
236 Pages
by Routledge

236 Pages
by Routledge

236 Pages
by Routledge
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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... Read more

 

Biography

Katarzyna Burzyńska holds a PhD in English literature and is currently an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. Her research interests include English early modern drama, eco-feminism, vegan studies and philosophical analysis of literature. In 2016 she published The Early Modern (Re)discovery of ‘Overhuman’ Potential: Marlowe’s and Shakespeare’s Over-reachers in the Light of Nietzsche’s Philosophy. The current monograph is a result of a research project entitled "Sir, she came in great with child, and longing": Phenomenology of pregnancy in English early modern drama (Measure for Measure 2.1.96)" financed by National Science Centre, Poland (no. UMO-2017/27/B/HS2/00089).

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