Milton and maternal mortality /

All too often, childbirth in early modern England was associated with fear, suffering and death, and this melancholy preoccupation weighed heavily on the seventeenth-century mind. This landmark study examines John Milton's life and work, uncovering evidence of the poet's engagement with ma...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Schwartz, Louis, 1962-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Temas:
Milton, John, > 1608-1674 > Criticism and interpretation.
Milton, John, > 1608-1674
Milton, John, > 1608-1674.
1600-1699
Mortality in literature.
Mothers > Mortality > Great Britain > History > 17th century.
Medicine > History > 17th century.
Mothers.
Maternal Mortality > history
History, 17th Century
Mothers
Mortalité dans la littérature.
Mères > Mortalité > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 17e siècle.
Médecine > Histoire > 17e siècle.
Mères.
mothers.
POETRY > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Medicine.
Mothers > Mortality.
United Kingdom
Great Britain.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • "Exquisitt torment" and "infinitt grace" : maternal suffering and the rites of childbirth
  • When things went wrong : maternal mortality and obstetric anxiety
  • Religious frameworks
  • "Too much conceaving" : Milton's "On Shakespear"
  • "Tears of perfect moan" : Milton and the Marchioness of Winchester
  • "Farr above in spangled sheen" : A mask and its epilogue
  • The wide wound and the veil : sonnet 23 and the "birth" of Eve in Paradise lost
  • "Conscious terrours" and "The promis'd seed" : seventeenth-century obstetrics and the allegory of sin and death in Paradise lost
  • The "womb of waters" and the "abortive gulph" : on the reproductive imagery of Milton's cosmos.

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