Monstrous motherhood : eighteenth-century culture and the ideology of domesticity /

Monstrous motherhood : eighteenth-century culture and the ideology of domesticity /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Francus, Marilyn
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012.
Subjects:
English literature > 18th century > History and criticism.
Mothers in literature.
Mother and child in literature.
Motherhood > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
England > Intellectual life > 18th century.
Table of Contents:
  • Mothers of the apocalypse: maternal allegory and myth in Swift and Pope
  • All too human: maternal monstrosity and Hester Thrale
  • Suffer the little children? the infanticidal mother in literature
  • Until proven innocent: infanticide in the public record and in court
  • Be monstrous or be marginal: stepmothers in literature
  • Pin the tale on the stepmother: Elizabeth Allen and the Burneys
  • But she's not there: the rise of the spectral mother.