Research Catalog

Details

Description

1. xi, 297 p.; 24 cm.

Subject

1. English literature > 18th century > History and criticism
2. Mother and child in literature
3. Mothers in literature
4. England > Intellectual life > 18th century
5. Motherhood > Great Britain > History > 18th century

Contents

1. 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.

Call number

1. JFE 13-1447

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Author

1. Francus, Marilyn.

Title

1. Monstrous motherhood : eighteenth-century culture and the ideology of domesticity / Marilyn Francus.

Imprint

1. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

LCCN

1. 2012012929

ISBN

1. 9781421407371 (hdbk. : acid-free paper)
2. 9781421407982 (electronic)
3. 142140737X (hdbk. : acid-free paper)
4. 1421407981 (electronic)

Research call number

1. JFE 13-1447