Monstrous motherhood : eighteenth-century culture and the ideology of domesticity /
Francus, Marilyn.
Monstrous motherhood : eighteenth-century culture and the ideology of domesticity / Marilyn Francus. - Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, (c)2013. - 1 online resource (352 pages)
Includes bibliographies 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
Motherhood--History--Great Britain--18th century.
Mother and child in literature.
Mothers in literature.
English literature--History and criticism.--18th century
Electronic Books.
PR448 / .M667 2013
Monstrous motherhood : eighteenth-century culture and the ideology of domesticity / Marilyn Francus. - Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, (c)2013. - 1 online resource (352 pages)
Includes bibliographies 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
Motherhood--History--Great Britain--18th century.
Mother and child in literature.
Mothers in literature.
English literature--History and criticism.--18th century
Electronic Books.
PR448 / .M667 2013