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