Monstrous motherhood eighteenth-century culture and the ideology of domesticity - Francus, Marilyn; ebrary, Inc. (Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012)
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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Electronic reproduction.
Keywords: English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism; Mothers in literature; Mother and child in literature; Motherhood -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century; England -- Intellectual life -- 18th century; Electronic books