Maybe Baby: Pregnant Possibilities in Medieval and Early Modern Literature.
- Author / Editor
- Barbaccia, Holly, Bethany Packard, and Jane Wanniger.
Maybe Baby: Pregnant Possibilities in Medieval and Early Modern Literature.
- Published
- Merry Wiesner, ed. Gendered Temporalities in the Early Modern World (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2018), pp. 213-34.
- Description
- Explores how the "unfulfilled outcomes" of characters who are possibly mothers or possibly pregnant in TC, MerT, Shakespeare's "All's Well that Ends Well," and John Webster's "The Duchess of Malfi" “simultaneously enable author, character, and audience to revise the past, conjure the future, and conceptualize a dynamic present." The "maternal possibility" of both Criseyde and May resonates "with medieval theories of interpretation" so that "the reader emerges as bearing responsibility for producing textual meaning."
- Contributor
- Packard, Bethany.
Wanniger, Jane.
Weisner, Merry, ed.
- Alternative Title
- Gendered Temporalities in the Early Modern World.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Merchant and His Tale
Troilus and Criseyde