The Absent Mother in the Cultural Imagination Missing, Presumed Dead /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors:	Åström, Berit (Editor)
Summary:	IX, 264 p. text
Language:	English
Published:	Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
Edition:	1st ed. 2017.
Subjects:	Culture > Study and teaching. Civilization > History. Sociology. Social groups. Motion pictures > History. Children's literature. European literature > Renaissance, 1450-1600. Cultural Theory. Cultural History. Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging. Film and TV History. Children's Literature. Early Modern and Renaissance Literature.
Online Access:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49037-3
Format:	Electronic Book

Table of Contents:

1. Introduction
2. The Lady Vanishes: The Rise of the Spectral Mother
3. Saintly Protection: The Post-Mortem 'Mothers'of Medieval Hagiography
4. 'Be War Be My Wo': Gaynour and Her Mother in The Awntyrs off Arthure
5. 'A dumme thynge': The Posthumous Voice as Rhetoric in the Mothers' Legacies of Dorothy Leigh and Elizabeth Joscelin
6. Dead Mothers and Absent Stepmothers in Slovak and Romani Fairy Tales
7. 'Born in a Tempest when My Mother Died': Shakespeare's Motherless Daughter
8. Ophelia's Mother: The Phantom of Maternity in Shakepseare's Hamlet
9. Missing Mothers on the Page and Stage: Hamlet and Henry V
10. A Side of the Family, Hold the Mother: Dare Wright and Her Fictive Kin in the Lonely Doll Series
11. Dead, but not Gone: Mother and Othermother in Holly Black and Ted Naifeh's The Good Neighbours
12. Victims and Villains: The Legacy of Mother Blame in Violent-Eye American Literature
13. Symbolic Matricide goneAwry: On Absent and - Maybe Even Worse - Present Mothers in Horror Movies
14. Television and the Absent Mother: Why Girls and Young Women Struggle to Find the Maternal Role
15. Marginalizing Motherhood: Postfeminist Fathers and Dead Mothers in Animated Film.-.

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