Marking Maternity in Middle English Romance

1. Women’s Secrets and Men’s Interests: Rituals of Childbirth and Northern Octavian

Angela Florschuetz

2. “That Moder Ever Hym Fed”: Nursing and Other Anthropophagies in Sir Gowther

Angela Florschuetz

3. “Youre Owene Thyng”: The Clerk’s Tale and Fantasies of Autonomous Male Reproduction
Angela Florschuetz

4. “A Mooder He Hath, but Fader Hath He Noon”: Maternal Transmission and Fatherless Sons: The Man of Law’s Tale

Angela Florschuetz

5. Forgetting Eleanor: Richard Coer de Lyon and England’s Maternal Aporia
Angela Florschuetz

6. Monstrous Maternity and the Mother-Mark: Melusine as Genealogical Phantom
Angela Florschuetz

7. Afterword: Abjection and the Mother at the End of this Book
Angela Florschuetz

Keywords: Literature, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, Gender Studies, Medieval Literature, Classical and Antique Literature, History of Medieval Europe