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Author Francus, Marilyn.

Title Monstrous motherhood : eighteenth-century culture and the ideology of domesticity / Marilyn Francus.

Publication Info. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013.
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2013.

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Description 1 online resource (352 pages)
text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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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Subject Motherhood -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
Motherhood.
Great Britain.
History.
Chronological Term 18th century
Subject Mother and child in literature.
Mother and child in literature.
Mothers in literature.
Mothers in literature.
English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
English literature.
England -- Intellectual life -- 18th century.
England.
Intellectual life.
Chronological Term 1700 - 1799
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Subject Motherhood.
Genre/Form Dictionaries.
Dictionaries.
Other Form: Print version: Francus, Marilyn. Monstrous motherhood. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013 (DLC) 2012012929
ISBN 9781421407982 (electronic book)
1421407981 (electronic book)
1421407981
9781421407371 (hdbk. ; acid-free paper)
142140737X (hdbk. ; acid-free paper)