Rachel Trubowitz connects changing 17th century English views of maternal nurture to the rise of the modern nation, especially between 1603 and 1675.

This volume brings together new work on the image of the nation and the construction of national identity in English literature of the seventeenth century. The

This volume examines early modern representations of women’s reproductive knowledge through new readings of plays, monstrous birth pamphlets, medical treatise

Religion and life cycles in early modern England assembles scholars working in the fields of history, English literature and art history to further our understa

A Nation of Change and Novelty (1990) ranges broadly over the political and literary terrain of the seventeenth century, examining the importance of the English