Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-256) and index.
Contents
Historicizing motherhood -- Royal motherhood Queen Anne and the politics of maternal representation -- The teeming princess of Denmark Anne as mother -- Thy nursing mother symbolic maternity and royal authority at the Coronatio of Queen Anne -- Symbolic maternity and practical politics in Queen Anne's England -- Monstrous motherhood violence difference and the subversion of maternal ideals -- Unnatural motherhood in two novels by Daniel Defoe -- Dreams of maternal autonomy scandalous motherhood in three tales by Eliza Haywood -- Maternal failure and socieconomic difference : The unantureal mother.