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

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Auteur principal: Buckley, Jenifer (Auteur)
Collectivité auteur: SpringerLink (Online service)
Résumé:VIII, 292 p.
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Langue:anglais
Publié: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
Édition:1st ed. 2017.
Collection:Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine,
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Accès en ligne:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53835-8
Format: Électronique Livre
Table des matières:
  • 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.