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Working at the intersection of medical, theological, cultural, and literary studies, this book offers an innovative approach to understanding maternity, genealogy and social identity as they are represented in popular literature in late-medieval England.

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Author:   A. Florschuetz
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   4.287kg
ISBN:  

9781137343482

ISBN 10:   1137343486
Pages:   232
Publication Date:   20 March 2014
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"Introduction: The Mother's Mark and the Maternal Monster 1. Women's Secrets and Men's Interests: Rituals of Childbirth and Northern Octavian 2. ""That Moder Ever Hym Fed"": Nursing and Other Anthropophagies in Sir Gowther 3. 'Youre Owene Thyng:' The Clerk's Tale and Fantasies of Autonomous Male Reproduction 4. 'A Mooder He Hath, But Fader Hath He Noon:' Maternal Transmission and Fatherless Sons: The Man of Law's Tale 5. Forgetting Eleanor: Richard Coer de Lyon and England's Maternal Aporia 6. Monstrous Maternity and the Mother-Mark: Melusine as Genealogical Phantom Afterword: Abjection and the Mother at the End of this Book"

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Angela L. Florschuetz is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Trinity University.

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