Romanticism, Maternity, and the Body Politic

Romanticism, Maternity, and the Body Politic
Title Romanticism, Maternity, and the Body Politic PDF eBook
Author Julie Kipp
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 258
Release 2003-08-14
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1139436171

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In Romanticism, Maternity, and the Body Politic, Julie Kipp examines Romantic writers' treatments of motherhood and maternal bodies in the context of the legal, medical, educational and socioeconomic debates about motherhood so popular during the period. She argues that these discussions turned the physical processes associated with mothering into matters of national importance. The privately shared space signified by the womb or the maternal breast were made public by the widespread interest in the workings of the maternal body. These private spaces evidenced for writers of the period the radical exposure of mother and child to one another - for good or ill. Kipp's primary concern is to underline the ways that writers used representations of mother-child bonds as ways of naturalizing, endorsing and critiquing Enlightenment constructions of interpersonal and intercultural relations. This fascinating literary and cultural study will appeal to all scholars of Romanticism.

Romanticism, Maternity, and the Body Politic

Romanticism, Maternity, and the Body Politic
Title Romanticism, Maternity, and the Body Politic PDF eBook
Author Julie Kipp
Publisher
Pages 237
Release 2003
Genre Childbirth in literature
ISBN 9780511306068

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Julie Kipp examines Romantic writers' treatments of motherhood and maternal bodies in the context of the legal, medical, educational, and socioeconomic debates about motherhood so popular during the period. She argues that these discussions turned the physical processes associated with mothering into matters of national importance.

Stage Mothers

Stage Mothers
Title Stage Mothers PDF eBook
Author Laura Engel
Publisher Bucknell University Press
Pages 291
Release 2014-11-06
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1611486041

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Stage Mothers explores the connections between motherhood and the theater both on and off stage throughout the long eighteenth century. Although the realities of eighteenth-century motherhood and representations of maternity have recently been investigated in relation to the novel, social history, and political economy, the idea of motherhood and its connection to the theatre as a professional, material, literary, and cultural site has received little critical attention. The essays in this volume, spanning the period from the Restoration to Regency, address these forgotten maternal narratives, focusing on: the representation of motherhood as the defining female role; the interplay between an actress’s celebrity persona and her chosen roles; the performative balance between the cults of maternity and that of the “passionate” actress; and tensions between sex and maternity and/or maternity and public authority. In examining the overlaps and disconnections between representations and realities of maternity in the long eighteenth century, and by looking at written, received, visual, and performed records of motherhood, Stage Mothers makes an important contribution to debates central to eighteenth-century cultural history.

Pathological Bodies

Pathological Bodies
Title Pathological Bodies PDF eBook
Author Corinna Wagner
Publisher Univ of California Press
Pages 327
Release 2015-06-09
Genre History
ISBN 0520289528

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This book explores the important connections between medicine and political culture that often have been overlooked. In response to the French revolution and British radicalism, political propagandists adopted a scientific vocabulary and medical images for their own purposes. New ideas about anatomy and pathology, sexuality and reproduction, cleanliness and contamination, and diet and drink migrated into politics in often startling ways, and to significant effect. These ideas were used to identify individuals as normal or pathological, and as “naturally” suitable or unsuitable for public life. This migration has had profound consequences for how we measure the bodies, practices and abilities of public figures and ourselves.

The Orient and the Young Romantics

The Orient and the Young Romantics
Title The Orient and the Young Romantics PDF eBook
Author Andrew Warren
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 295
Release 2014-11-06
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1316123774

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Through close readings of major poems, this book examines why the second-generation Romantic poets - Byron, Shelley, and Keats - stage so much of their poetry in Eastern or Orientalized settings. It argues that they do so not only to interrogate their own imaginations, but also as a way of criticizing Europe's growing imperialism. For them the Orient is a projection of Europe's own fears and desires. It is therefore a charged setting in which to explore and contest the limits of the age's aesthetics, politics and culture. Being nearly always self-conscious and ironic, the poets' treatment of the Orient becomes itself a twinned criticism of 'Romantic' egotism and the Orientalism practised by earlier generations. The book goes further to claim that poems like Shelley's Revolt of Islam, Byron's 'Eastern' Tales, or even Keats's Lamia anticipate key issues at stake in postcolonial studies more generally.

Romanticism and Theatrical Experience

Romanticism and Theatrical Experience
Title Romanticism and Theatrical Experience PDF eBook
Author Jonathan Mulrooney
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 295
Release 2019-01-10
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1316877396

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Bringing together studies in theater history, print culture, and literature, this book offers a new consideration of Romantic-period writing in Britain. Recovering a wide range of theatrical criticism from newspapers and periodicals, some of it overlooked since its original publication in Regency London, Jonathan Mulrooney explores new contexts for the work of the actor Edmund Kean, essayist William Hazlitt, and poet John Keats. Kean's ongoing presence as a figure in the theatrical news presented readers with a provocative re-imagining of personal subjectivity and a reworking of the British theatrical tradition. Hazlitt and Keats, in turn, imagined the essayist and the poet along similar theatrical lines, reframing Romantic prose and poetics. Taken together, these case studies illustrate not only theater's significance to early nineteenth-century Londoners, but also the importance of theater's textual legacies for our own re-assessment of 'Romanticism' as a historical and cultural phenomenon.

Physical Disability in British Romantic Literature

Physical Disability in British Romantic Literature
Title Physical Disability in British Romantic Literature PDF eBook
Author Essaka Joshua
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 319
Release 2020-11-12
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1108836704

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This book provides new period-appropriate concepts for understanding Romantic-era physical disability through function and aesthetics.