Plotting Motherhood in Medieval, Early Modern, and Modern Literature

1. Introduction: Plotting Motherhood in Medieval, Early Modern, and Modern Literature
Mary Beth Rose

2. Time, Narrative, and Maternity in Augustine’s Confessions

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3. Maternal Abandonment, Maternal Deprivation: Tales of Griselda in Boccaccio, Petrarch, Chaucer, and Shakespeare
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4. Maternal Authority and the Conflicts It Generates in Early Modern Dramatic Plots
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5. Milton and Maternal Authority: Why Is the Virgin Mary in Paradise Regained?
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6. The Emergence of the Mother in Oscar Wilde’s Comic Plots
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Angels in America: The Transformation of Maternal Plotting and the Transformation of the Family
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8. Epilogue
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Keywords: Literature, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, British and Irish Literature, Medieval Literature, Literary History