The Masque and the Matrix: Alice Egerton, Richard Napier, and Suffocation of the Mother

Brogan, Boyd

doi:10.1353/mlt.2014.0004

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“…107-159). In any case, King cautions the modern reader not to presume that ancient discussions of genital massage were equivalent to our modern concept of masturbation (King, 2011, p. 232; see also Brogan, 2014).…”

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From Girlhood to Motherhood: Rituals of Childbirth and Obstetrical Medicine Re-Examined through John Milton

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2017

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This article considers how seventeenth-century writer John Milton engages in modes of thinking that register the obstetric revolution occurring during the period. During a time when physicians were gaining entry to the birthing room, a medical rhetoric of childbirth was developing that cast childbirth in new pathological terms. Milton's A Masque Presented at Ludlow Castle demonstrates how childbirth was influenced by emerging obstetrical language and practice, as well as the ways in which a writer might question such influence. Finally, this article also draws links between disrupted historical rituals of childbirth and modern anxieties about medically-centred birthing practices.

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Milton, Jerome, and Apocalyptic Virginity

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2019

Renaiss. Q.

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Milton's youthful interest in virginity is usually regarded as a private eccentricity abandoned on his maturation. His “Mask” is often read, analogously, as charting the Lady's movement from temporary virginity to wedded chastity. This essay challenges those claims, arguing that Milton's understanding of virginity's poetic and apocalyptic powers comes from Saint Jerome, whose ideas he struggles with throughout his career. Reading “A Mask” alongside Jerome suggests that Milton endorses the apocalyptic potential of virginity without necessarily assigning those powers to the Lady herself. In later works, Milton modifies and adapts Jerome before finally producing the perfect eremitic hero of “Paradise Regain'd.”

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The Masque and the Matrix: Alice Egerton, Richard Napier, and Suffocation of the Mother

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Milton, Jerome, and Apocalyptic Virginity

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