Monstrous motherhood : eighteenth-century culture and the ideology of domesticity
Type
Book
Authors
Category
Main Collection post-1900
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Publication Year
2012
Publisher
Subject
Mothers in literature-History-18th century;Mother and child in literature-History-18th century;Motherhood-Great Britain-History-18th century;Abusive parents-Great Britain-History-18th century;English literature-18th century-History and criticism
Description
(SBN) 9781421407371 (hbk. : acid-free paper)||(BIB) Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-284) and index.||(CON) 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.
Biblio Notes
xi, 297 p. ; 24 cm. (hbk)
Number of Copies
1