Marking maternity in Middle English romance : mothers, identity, and contamination / Angela Florschuetz.

• Introduction: The Mother's Mark and the Maternal Monster -- Women's Secrets and Men's Interests: Rituals of Childbirth and Northern Octavian -- "That Moder Ever Hym Fed": Nursing and Other Anthropophagies in Sir Gowther -- "Youre Owene Thyng:" The Clerk's Tale and Fantasies of Autonomous Male Reproduction -- "A Mooder He Hath, But Fader Hath He Noon:" Maternal Transmission and Fatherless Sons: the Man of Law's Tale -- Forgetting Eleanor: Richard Coer de Lyon and England's Maternal Aporia -- Monstrous Maternity and the Mother-Mark: Melusine as Genealogical Phantom.

Ämnesord

English poetry  -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

Motherhood in literature.  (LCSH)

Childbirth in literature.  (LCSH)

Romances, English  -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

Klassifikation

PR317.M68 (LCC)

820.9/001 (DDC)