Monstrous motherhood
Francus, Marilyn.
Monstrous motherhood eighteenth-century culture and the ideology of domesticity / [electronic resource] : Marilyn Francus. - Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. - 1 online resource (352 p.)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
9781421407982 1421407981
Motherhood--History--Great Britain--18th century.
Mother and child in literature.
Mothers in literature.
English literature--History and criticism.--18th century
England--Intellectual life--18th century.
Electronic books.
PR448.M66 / F73 2013
820.9/3520431
Monstrous motherhood eighteenth-century culture and the ideology of domesticity / [electronic resource] : Marilyn Francus. - Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. - 1 online resource (352 p.)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
9781421407982 1421407981
Motherhood--History--Great Britain--18th century.
Mother and child in literature.
Mothers in literature.
English literature--History and criticism.--18th century
England--Intellectual life--18th century.
Electronic books.
PR448.M66 / F73 2013
820.9/3520431