Monstrous motherhood :: eighteenth-century culture and the ideology of domesticity /
Spectral and monstrous mothers populate the cultural and literary landscape of the eighteenth century, overturning scholarly assumptions about this being an era of ideal motherhood. Although credited with the rise of domesticity, eighteenth-century British culture singularly lacked narratives of goo...
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| Zusammenfassung: | Spectral and monstrous mothers populate the cultural and literary landscape of the eighteenth century, overturning scholarly assumptions about this being an era of ideal motherhood. 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, or dead. British culture told tales almost exclusively of wicked, surrogate, or spectral mothers - revealing the defects of domestic ideology, the cultural fascination with standards and deviance, and the desire to police maternal behaviors. This book analyzes eighteenth-century motherhood in light of the inconsistencies among domestic ideology, narrative, and historical practice. If domesticity was so important, why is the good mother's story absent or peripheral? What do the available maternal narratives suggest about domestic ideology and the expectations and enactment of motherhood? By focusing on literary and historical mothers in novels, plays, poems, diaries, conduct manuals, contemporary court cases, realist fiction, fairy tales, satire, and romance, the author reclaims silenced maternal voices and perspectives. She exposes the mechanisms of maternal marginalization and spectralization in eighteenth-century culture and revises the domesticity thesis. |
| Beschreibung: | 1 online resource (352 pages) |
| Bibliographie: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781421407982 1421407981 |
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| contents | 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. |
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| spelling | Francus, Marilyn. Monstrous motherhood : eighteenth-century culture and the ideology of domesticity / Marilyn Francus. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2013] 1 online resource (352 pages) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. 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. Spectral and monstrous mothers populate the cultural and literary landscape of the eighteenth century, overturning scholarly assumptions about this being an era of ideal motherhood. 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, or dead. British culture told tales almost exclusively of wicked, surrogate, or spectral mothers - revealing the defects of domestic ideology, the cultural fascination with standards and deviance, and the desire to police maternal behaviors. This book analyzes eighteenth-century motherhood in light of the inconsistencies among domestic ideology, narrative, and historical practice. If domesticity was so important, why is the good mother's story absent or peripheral? What do the available maternal narratives suggest about domestic ideology and the expectations and enactment of motherhood? By focusing on literary and historical mothers in novels, plays, poems, diaries, conduct manuals, contemporary court cases, realist fiction, fairy tales, satire, and romance, the author reclaims silenced maternal voices and perspectives. She exposes the mechanisms of maternal marginalization and spectralization in eighteenth-century culture and revises the domesticity thesis. Print version record. English. Motherhood Great Britain History 18th century. Mother and child in literature. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94006690 Mothers in literature. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85087547 English literature 18th century History and criticism. England Intellectual life 18th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043303 Maternité Grande-Bretagne Histoire 18e siècle. Mère et enfant dans la littérature. Mères dans la littérature. Littérature anglaise 18e siècle Histoire et critique. Angleterre Vie intellectuelle 18e siècle. LITERARY CRITICISM European English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. bisacsh English literature fast Intellectual life fast Mother and child in literature fast Motherhood fast Mothers in literature fast England fast https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJpYDdYvBpjXV6WpybK68C Great Britain fast https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJdmp7p3cx8hpmJ8HvmTpP 1700-1799 fast Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast History fast Print version: Francus, Marilyn. Monstrous motherhood. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013 (DLC) 2012012929 |
| spellingShingle | Francus, Marilyn Monstrous motherhood : eighteenth-century culture and the ideology of domesticity / 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. Motherhood Great Britain History 18th century. Mother and child in literature. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94006690 Mothers in literature. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85087547 English literature 18th century History and criticism. Maternité Grande-Bretagne Histoire 18e siècle. Mère et enfant dans la littérature. Mères dans la littérature. Littérature anglaise 18e siècle Histoire et critique. LITERARY CRITICISM European English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. bisacsh English literature fast Intellectual life fast Mother and child in literature fast Motherhood fast Mothers in literature fast |
| subject_GND | http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94006690 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85087547 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043303 |
| title | Monstrous motherhood : eighteenth-century culture and the ideology of domesticity / |
| title_auth | Monstrous motherhood : eighteenth-century culture and the ideology of domesticity / |
| title_exact_search | Monstrous motherhood : eighteenth-century culture and the ideology of domesticity / |
| title_full | Monstrous motherhood : eighteenth-century culture and the ideology of domesticity / Marilyn Francus. |
| title_fullStr | Monstrous motherhood : eighteenth-century culture and the ideology of domesticity / Marilyn Francus. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Monstrous motherhood : eighteenth-century culture and the ideology of domesticity / Marilyn Francus. |
| title_short | Monstrous motherhood : |
| title_sort | monstrous motherhood eighteenth century culture and the ideology of domesticity |
| title_sub | eighteenth-century culture and the ideology of domesticity / |
| topic | Motherhood Great Britain History 18th century. Mother and child in literature. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94006690 Mothers in literature. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85087547 English literature 18th century History and criticism. Maternité Grande-Bretagne Histoire 18e siècle. Mère et enfant dans la littérature. Mères dans la littérature. Littérature anglaise 18e siècle Histoire et critique. LITERARY CRITICISM European English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. bisacsh English literature fast Intellectual life fast Mother and child in literature fast Motherhood fast Mothers in literature fast |
| topic_facet | Motherhood Great Britain History 18th century. Mother and child in literature. Mothers in literature. English literature 18th century History and criticism. England Intellectual life 18th century. Maternité Grande-Bretagne Histoire 18e siècle. Mère et enfant dans la littérature. Mères dans la littérature. Littérature anglaise 18e siècle Histoire et critique. Angleterre Vie intellectuelle 18e siècle. LITERARY CRITICISM European English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. English literature Intellectual life Mother and child in literature Motherhood Mothers in literature England Great Britain Criticism, interpretation, etc. History |
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