Milton and Maternal Mortality (e-bog) af Schwartz, Louis
Schwartz, Louis (forfatter)

Milton and Maternal Mortality e-bog

337,32 DKK (inkl. moms 421,65 DKK)
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 maternal mortality and the dilemmas it presented. Drawing on both literary scholarship and historical researc...
E-bog 337,32 DKK
Forfattere Schwartz, Louis (forfatter)
Udgivet 11 juni 2009
Genrer Biography, Literature and Literary studies
Sprog English
Format epub
Beskyttelse LCP
ISBN 9780511698613
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 maternal mortality and the dilemmas it presented. Drawing on both literary scholarship and historical research, Louis Schwartz provides important readings of Milton's poetry, including Paradise Lost, as well as a wide-ranging survey of the medical practices and religious beliefs that surrounded the perils of childbirth. The reader is granted a richer understanding of how seventeenth-century society struggled to come to terms with its fears, and how one of its most important poets gave voice to that struggle.