Milton and maternal mortality /

Milton and maternal mortality /

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Author / Creator:Schwartz, Louis, 1962-
Imprint:Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Description:1 online resource (xi, 269 pages)
Language:English
Subject:
Milton, John, -- 1608-1674 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Milton, John, -- 1608-1674.
Milton, John, -- 1608-1674.
Mortality in literature.
Mothers -- Mortality -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century.
Mortality in literature.
Mothers -- Mortality.
Maternal Mortality -- history -- Great Britain.
History, 17th Century -- Great Britain.
Mothers -- Great Britain.
Great Britain.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Electronic books.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11826522
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ISBN:9780511580857
0511580851
9780511580536
0511580533
9780521896382
052189638X
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Print version record.
Summary:All too often, childbirth in early modern England was associated with fear, suffering and death, and this melancholy preoccupation weighed heavily on the seventeenth-century mind. This landmark study examines John Milton's life and work, uncovering evidence of the poet's engagement with maternal mortality and the dilemmas it presented. Drawing on both literary scholarship and historical research, Louis Schwartz provides important readings of Milton's poetry, including Paradise Lost, as well as a wide-ranging survey of the medical practices and religious beliefs that surrounded the perils of childbirth. The reader is granted a richer understanding of how seventeenth-century society struggled to come to terms with its fears, and how one of its most important poets gave voice to that struggle.
Other form:Print version: Schwartz, Louis, 1962- Milton and maternal mortality. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009 9780521896382 052189638X
Standard no.:9786612302855

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