Imagining Monsters: Miscreations of the Self in Eighteenth-Century England by Dennis Todd

Imagining Monsters: Miscreations of the Self in Eighteenth-Century England

Dennis Todd

357 pages paperback

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In 1726, an illiterate woman from Surrey named Mary Toft announced that she had given birth to seventeen rabbits. Deceiving respected physicians and citizens alike, she created a hoax that held England spellbound for months. In Imagining Monsters,...

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