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

Author
Francus, Marilyn
Published
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012.
Physical Description
xi, 297 p. ; 24 cm.

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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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ISBN
9781421407371 (hdbk. : acid-free paper)
9781421407982 (electronic)
142140737X (hdbk. : acid-free paper)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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