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Monstrous Motherhood: Eighteenth-Century Culture and the Ideology of Domesticity by Marilyn Francus

Monstrous Motherhood: Eighteenth-Century Culture and the Ideology of Domesticity

Marilyn Francus

312 pages hardcover 2012

2 editions

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Although credited with the rise of domesticity, eighteenth-century British culture singularly lacked narratives of good mothers, ostensibly the most domestic of females. With startling frequency, the best mother was absent, disembodied, voiceless,...

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