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Gender, pregnancy and power in eighteenth-century literature : the maternal imagination / Jenifer Buckley.

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'In The Maternal Imagination, Buckley presents significant original evidence of the medical, folkloric, political, and aesthetic roots and occurrences of the trope of maternal imagination in a diverse range of literary genres in the eighteenth century. This comprehensive work is a valuable cont...

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Main Author: Buckley, Jenifer (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017]
Series:Palgrave studies in literature, science, and medicine.
Subjects:
Literature, Modern > 18th century > History and criticism.
Pregnancy in literature.
English literature > 18th century > History and criticism.
Women > 18th century.
Pregnancy.
English literature.
Women.
Literature, Modern.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Mary Toft's performance: imagining powerful pregnancies in pantomime and pamphlets
  • "For one would be loath to spoil a son and heir": the power of maternal imagination in fiction of the mid eighteenth-century
  • "'Tis my father's fault": Tristram Shandy and paternal imagination
  • "I'll repress the rising anguish/Till thine eyes behold the light": passionate responsibility in maternal poetry
  • Romantic imagination and maternal guilt in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
  • Afterbirth: the discourse of maternal imagination after the eighteenth century.

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