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Michael, Nancy Margaret Furey.

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Motherhood and Power in Middle English Romance.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Motherhood and Power in Middle English Romance./
Author:	Michael, Nancy Margaret Furey.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2020,
Description:	191 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 81-12, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International81-12A.
Subject:	Medieval literature. -
Online resource:	https://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=27959689
ISBN:	9798645499396

Motherhood and Power in Middle English Romance.
Michael, Nancy Margaret Furey.

Motherhood and Power in Middle English Romance. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2020 - 191 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 81-12, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Catholic University of America, 2020.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

While there has been considerable study into the role of women and female agency in medieval romance, there is comparatively little in-depth exploration into mothers, specifically. This may, in part, be because mothers are typically minor characters within a romance, and their importance to the larger text can be easily overlooked. Yet male aristocratic identity is central to romance, and when mothers are featured within a given text, they are often influential to some aspect of masculine identity, making them more important than they might initially appear.The purpose of this dissertation is to explore the complex role of maternal power as it relates to male aristocratic identity across a spectrum of Middle English romance. Chapter One discusses the family romances The King of Tars and Sir Gowther, both of which feature a monstrous birth, demonstrating how mothers in these texts are the ones who initiate the process of undoing their sons' monstrosity. In Chapter Two, the hagiographic romances Emare, The Man of Law's Tale, and The Clerk's Tale explore the unexpected power found in maternal suffering, which works through the power of pity engendered in those who behold the suffering mother. Chapter Three marks a turning point from positive manifestations of maternal power to negative. In this chapter, I consider The Man of Law's Tale from the perspective of chronicle romance, examining how the villainous royal mothers attempt to seize kingly authority for their own purposes. Finally, Chapter Four focuses on Le Morte D'Arthur and ungovernable maternal sexuality. In this final chapter, I compare Malory's treatment of Morgause against his sources to show how Malory has augmented the danger of maternal sexuality to the point where it threatens the chivalric enterprise.This study will demonstrate the complex, nuanced ways maternal power is connected to one of the central concerns of romance, that of male aristocratic identity. Regardless of whether mothers use power in acceptable or unacceptable ways, they have a significant impact on the development, restitution, or denigration of chivalric identity, and they must be considered in order to understand the full picture of the romance in question.

ISBN: 9798645499396Subjects--Topical Terms:

3168324
Medieval literature.
Subjects--Index Terms:

Chaucer

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