Francus, Marilyn

Monstrous motherhood eighteenth-century culture and the ideology of domesticity / [Texte imprimé] : Marilyn Francus - Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013 - 1 vol. (XI-297 p.) : couv. ill. ; 24 cm

Bibliogr. p. [271]-284

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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