Bodies, Speech, and Reproductive Knowledge in Early Modern England

Sara D. Luttfring

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English

Routledge
27 July 2015

Series: Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture

This volume examines early modern representations of women’s reproductive knowledge through new readings of plays, monstrous birth pamphlets, medical treatises, court records, histories, and more, which are often interpreted as depicting female reproductive bodies as passive, silenced objects of male control and critique. Luttfring argues instead that these texts represent women exercising epistemological control over reproduction through the stories they tell about their bodies and the ways they act these stories out, combining speech and physical performance into what Luttfring calls 'bodily narratives.' The power of these bodily narratives extends beyond knowledge of individual bodies to include the ways that women’s stories about reproduction shape the patriarchal identities of fathers, husbands, and kings. In the popular print and theater of early modern England, women’s bodies, women’s speech, and in particular women’s speech about their bodies perform socially constitutive work: constructing legible narratives of lineage and inheritance; making and unmaking political alliances; shaping local economies; and defining/delimiting male socio-political authority in medical, royal, familial, judicial, and economic contexts. This book joins growing critical discussion of how female reproductive bodies were used to represent socio-political concerns and will be of interest to students and scholars working in early modern literature and culture, women’s history, and the history of medicine.

By: Sara D. Luttfring
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 1.050kg
ISBN: 9781138849426
ISBN 10: 1138849421
Series: Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture
Pages: 232
Publication Date: 27 July 2015
Audience: College/higher education , Primary , A / AS level
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Sara D. Luttfring is Assistant Professor of English at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College. Her work has appeared in the journals Renaissance Drama and Huntington Library Quarterly, as well as in the edited collection Staging the Blazon in Early Modern English Theater (2013).

Reviews for Bodies, Speech, and Reproductive Knowledge in Early Modern England

"""Luttfring makes a significant contribution to contemporary understandings of representations of early modern reproduction by arguing that through their ""bodily narratives"" women played a role in the formation of patriarchal identities during the early Stuart through the Interregnum periods."" --Kathleen Kalpin Smith, University of South Carolina, Aiken, USA"