Monstrous motherhood [electronic resource] : eighteenth-century culture and the ideology of domesticity / Marilyn Francus.
Material type: TextPublication details: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (352 p.)ISBN:- 9781421407982
- 1421407981
- 820.9/3520431 23
- PR448.M66 F73 2013
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.
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