Gender, Pregnancy and Power in Eighteenth-Century Literature The Maternal Imagination /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Buckley, Jenifer (Author)
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Summary:	VIII, 292 p. text
Language:	English
Published:	Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
Edition:	1st ed. 2017.
Series:	Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine,
Subjects:	Literature, Modern > 18th century. Science > History. Eighteenth-Century Literature. History of Science.
Online Access:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53835-8
Format:	Electronic Book

Table of Contents:

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.

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