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

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Spectral and monstrous mothers populate the cultural and literary landscape of the eighteenth century, overturning scholarly assumptions about this being an era of ideal motherhood. Although credited with the rise of domesticity, eighteenth-century British culture singularly lacked narratives of goo...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Francus, Marilyn
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2013]
Subjects:
1700-1799
Motherhood > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Mother and child in literature.
Mothers in literature.
English literature > 18th century > History and criticism.
Maternité > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Mère et enfant dans la littérature.
Mères dans la littérature.
Littérature anglaise > 18e siècle > Histoire et critique.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
English literature
Intellectual life
Mother and child in literature
Motherhood
Mothers in literature
England > Intellectual life > 18th century.
Angleterre > Vie intellectuelle > 18e siècle.
England
Great Britain
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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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