Gender, Pregnancy and Power in Eighteenth-Century Literature The Maternal Imagination /
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| Sumari: | VIII, 292 p. text |
| Idioma: | anglès |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
2017.
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| Edició: | 1st ed. 2017. |
| Col·lecció: | Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine,
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| Accés en línia: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53835-8 |
| Format: | Electrònic Llibre |
Taula de continguts:
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- Chapter 2: Mary Toft’s Performance: Imagining Powerful Pregnancies in Pantomime and Pamphlets
- Chapter 3: "For one would be loath to spoil a son and heir": the Power of Maternal Imagination in Fiction of the Mid Eighteenth-Century
- Chapter 4: ‘’Tis My Father’s Fault’: Tristram Shandy and Paternal Imagination
- Chapter 5: "I’ll repress the rising anguish/Till thine eyes behold the light": Passionate Responsibility in Maternal Poetry
- Chapter 6: Romantic Imagination and Maternal Guilt in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
- Afterbirth: The Discourse of Maternal Imagination After the Eighteenth Century.