Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction Naturally bad or dangerously good: Romantic-period mothers “on trial”
- 1 Revolutions in mothering: theory and practice
- 2 A love too thick: Gothic mothers and monstrous sympathies
- 3 The Irish wet nurse: Edgeworth's Ennui
- 4 Infanticide in an age of enlightenment: Scott's The Heart of Midlothian
- 5 The case of the Shelleys: maternal sympathy and The Cenci
- Postscript
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN ROMANTICISM
Index
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction Naturally bad or dangerously good: Romantic-period mothers “on trial”
- 1 Revolutions in mothering: theory and practice
- 2 A love too thick: Gothic mothers and monstrous sympathies
- 3 The Irish wet nurse: Edgeworth's Ennui
- 4 Infanticide in an age of enlightenment: Scott's The Heart of Midlothian
- 5 The case of the Shelleys: maternal sympathy and The Cenci
- Postscript
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN ROMANTICISM
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- Chapter
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- Romanticism, Maternity, and the Body Politic , pp. 232 - 238Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2003