In early modern England, infanticide was a crime overwhelmingly associated with women. Both popular texts and legal records depict women accused of infanticide as mothers acting against nature. These figures, however, do not often appear in the period’s drama. Instead, early modern drama includes fictionalized mothers who kill their children beyond infancy and into adulthood. By eschewing portrayals of neonaticide and the trials associated with it, the drama highlights a dependency upon female characters’ verbal narratives of the reproductive body that reinforces pregnancy’s unstable epistemology. I argue that the flexibility of this epistemology allows women, whether female characters in drama or historical women on trial...
In seventeenth-century England, single women who killed their newborns were believed to have acted t...
For a month after childbirth, the authors of medical and religious prescriptive literature instructe...
Disclaimer: I am currently writing a chapter on infanticidal queens in early modern drama. It is nei...
This research derives from analysis of cases of suspicious infant death recorded in Sussex Coroners’...
Pregnancy and childbirth is a biologically and socially constructed event which shaped the lives of ...
While an early modern queen was expected to act as a stabilizing presence by giving birth to heirs a...
The paired experiences of childbirth and pregnancy were carefully written about by early modern wome...
In this project I examine eighteenth-century literary representations of the pregnant or birthing fe...
IMAGINATION AND DEFORMATION: MONSTROUS MATERNAL PERVERSIONS OF NATURAL REPRODUCTION IN EARLY MODERN ...
Single Women in Early Modern England were treated as outcasts in society unlike their married counte...
225 p.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2010.Chapters 4 and 5 broaden the ...
The goal of this study is to examine the intersection of religion and maternity in early modern Engl...
225 p.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2010.Chapters 4 and 5 broaden the ...
In seventeenth-century England, single women who killed their newborns were believed to have acted t...
Includes bibliographical references (pages 88-95)To men of early modern England, few things mattered...
In seventeenth-century England, single women who killed their newborns were believed to have acted t...
For a month after childbirth, the authors of medical and religious prescriptive literature instructe...
Disclaimer: I am currently writing a chapter on infanticidal queens in early modern drama. It is nei...
This research derives from analysis of cases of suspicious infant death recorded in Sussex Coroners’...
Pregnancy and childbirth is a biologically and socially constructed event which shaped the lives of ...
While an early modern queen was expected to act as a stabilizing presence by giving birth to heirs a...
The paired experiences of childbirth and pregnancy were carefully written about by early modern wome...
In this project I examine eighteenth-century literary representations of the pregnant or birthing fe...
IMAGINATION AND DEFORMATION: MONSTROUS MATERNAL PERVERSIONS OF NATURAL REPRODUCTION IN EARLY MODERN ...
Single Women in Early Modern England were treated as outcasts in society unlike their married counte...
225 p.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2010.Chapters 4 and 5 broaden the ...
The goal of this study is to examine the intersection of religion and maternity in early modern Engl...
225 p.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2010.Chapters 4 and 5 broaden the ...
In seventeenth-century England, single women who killed their newborns were believed to have acted t...
Includes bibliographical references (pages 88-95)To men of early modern England, few things mattered...
In seventeenth-century England, single women who killed their newborns were believed to have acted t...
For a month after childbirth, the authors of medical and religious prescriptive literature instructe...
Disclaimer: I am currently writing a chapter on infanticidal queens in early modern drama. It is nei...