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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 2009 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.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Milton and Maternal Mortality
• Author: Louis Schwartz
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 282
• EAN: 9780521896382
• ISBN: 052189638X
• ID: 02049676
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 6 g
• Dimensions: 235 × 160 × 18 mm
• Date of publishing: 11. June 2009

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