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Marking Maternity in Middle English Romance: Mothers, Identity, and Contamination

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Author(s): Angela Florschuetz (auth.)
Series: The New Middle Ages
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
Year: 2014

Language: English
Tags: Literary Theory; Cultural Theory; Gender Studies; Medieval Literature; Classical and Antique Literature; History of Medieval Europe

Front Matter....Pages i-xxiii
Women’s Secrets and Men’s Interests: Rituals of Childbirth and Northern Octavian ....Pages 1-31
“That Moder Ever Hym Fed”: Nursing and Other Anthropophagies in Sir Gowther ....Pages 33-65
“Youre Owene Thyng”: The Clerk’s Tale and Fantasies of Autonomous Male Reproduction....Pages 67-93
“A Mooder He Hath, but Fader Hath He Noon”: Maternal Transmission and Fatherless Sons: The Man of Law’s Tale ....Pages 95-120
Forgetting Eleanor: Richard Coer de Lyon and England’s Maternal Aporia....Pages 121-154
Monstrous Maternity and the Mother-Mark: Melusine as Genealogical Phantom....Pages 155-185
Afterword: Abjection and the Mother at the End of this Book....Pages 187-193
Back Matter....Pages 195-232