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Suvir Kaul Savage, Elizabeth Anne 2015-09-25T20:15:23Z 2015-09-25T20:15:23Z 10000-01-01 2008 2008 The fifth chapter explores the alternative representation of parental influence provided in Aphra Behn's Sir Patient Fancy (1678). Sir Patient, an absurd patriarch, falls victim to two mother figures who subvert his control in order to secure happiness for their families. In doing so, they ensure the perpetuation of a more appropriate version of masculine authority. These positive representations of female authority challenge popular beliefs about women's duplicity by presenting strong female figures who responsibly fulfill their maternal roles without the tyranny that characterizes men in similarly powerful positions. Behn also reverses common representations of the female body as weak and permeable by making Sir Patient a hypochondriac who displays the fallibility of his own body. His ailing body, in turn, symbolizes his lack of fitness to rule. (Abstract shortened by UMI.). Made available in DSpace on 2015-09-25T20:15:23Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license.txt: 4848 bytes, checksum: 96035ab3f5e1c23cc7138a224ce498bd (MD5) 3314883.pdf: 4535931 bytes, checksum: 54253ec45d55e2e1dbecd802db9cb2d4 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008 Embargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 82720 Lift date: Forever Reason: Restricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETDs Restricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETDs U of I Only 229 p. Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2142/81439 (MiAaPQ)AAI3314883 eng Literature, English Nursery of the Nation: Mothers, Midwives and National Identity on the Eighteenth-Century Comedic Stage text English English University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dissertation Ph.D.