Milton and Maternal Mortality

ISBN: 9781107403055 出版年：2009 页码：283 Louis Schwartz Cambridge University Press

Introduction Part I. Behind the Veil: Childbirth and the Nature of Obstetric Anxiety in Early Modern England: 1. 'Exquisitt torment' and 'infinitt grace': maternal suffering and the rites of childbirth 2. When things went wrong: maternal mortality and obstetric anxiety 3. Religious frameworks Part II. 'Scarce-Well-Lighted Flame': The Representation of Maternal Mortality in Milton's Early Poetry: 4. 'Too much conceaving': Milton's 'On Shakespear' 5. 'Tears of perfect moan': Milton and the Marchioness of Winchester 6. 'Farr above in spangled sheen': A Mask and its epilogue Part III. Conscious Terrors: The Problem of Maternal Mortality in Milton's Later Poetry: 7. The wide wound and the veil: Sonnet 23 and the birth of Eve 8. 'Conscious terrors' and the 'Promised Seed': seventeenth-century obstetrics and the allegory of sin and death 9. The 'Womb of waters' and the 'Abortive Gulph': on the reproductive imagery of Milton's cosmos.