Francus, Marilyn. <br/><br/>
Monstrous motherhood :  eighteenth-century culture and the ideology of domesticity / 
Marilyn Francus. 
 - Baltimore :  Johns Hopkins University Press,  (c)2013. 
 - 1 online resource (352 pages) 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>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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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781421407982 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Motherhood--History--Great Britain--18th century.<br/>Mother and child in literature.<br/>Mothers in literature.<br/>English literature--History and criticism.--18th century
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PR448  / .M667 2013