Monstrous Motherhood

Monstrous Motherhood

Contents:

  • How television's monstrous mothers are exploding old stereotypes
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    • By focusing on literary and historical mothers in novels, plays, poems, diaries, conduct manuals, contemporary court cases, realist fiction, fairy tales, satire, and romance, Marilyn Francus reclaims silenced maternal voices and perspectives.

    In this Book

    She exposes the mechanisms of maternal marginalization and spectralization in eighteenth-century culture and revises the domesticity thesis. She is author of The Converting Imagination: Francus's work is a pleasure to read; it is thoroughly researched and very carefully planned Monstrous Motherhood is a significant study with a great deal to add to our understanding of the representation of mothers in the literature and culture of the long eighteenth century.

    It uncovers fascinating material drawn from both historical and literary sources, delivering an invaluable and compelling study. Her book is an invaluable addition to women's studies as well as literature and culture of the eighteenth century.

    In so doing, she rightly asks us to rethink what critics and theorists have called "domestic ideology. It is a canny and innovative intervention in some of the most important scholarly debates over this period and should reshape the ways in which domestic ideology and the feminine subject are theorized and historicized in the field of eighteenth-century studies.

    How television's monstrous mothers are exploding old stereotypes

    In the way of groundbreaking studies, Monstrous Motherhood is replete with intriguing opportunities for future work. For Francus, the bad rap that stepmothers have always gotten in literature reveals a more obvious but not more pernicious glimpse into the fraught conditions of eighteenth-century motherhood.

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    One cannot speak of these conditions without broaching the subject of the terrible odds of biological motherhood during the time. The mortality rates ensuing from the horrors of eighteenth-century prenatal care often met with lowered societal expectations regarding infant survival, sometimes turning poverty itself into another condition of death.

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    Here, Francus transitions deftly between biological survey, literary representation, and legal analysis, describing eighteenth-century motherhood in its full complexity and inner tension. In addition to examining the threat of infanticide in literature of which there are a significant number in eighteenth-century texts , Francus examines a wide array of eighteenth-century legal cases prosecuting mothers for infanticide.

    In particular, she presents a compelling argument which helps account for the radically different fortunes of mothers on trial during the period, who frequently either walked free or received a death sentence. Since most of these cases involved infants born out of wedlock, thoroughly repentant mothers who were perceived to have committed the crime out of virtuous but misguided concern walked free, whereas those who did not were slapped with the crime of exercising personal autonomy were cast as uncontrollable monsters and executed.

    As a specter, the mother is there — but not entirely. This was, in many ways, a logical outcome of the impossible social demand that mothers, in effect, be mothers without being mothers. Francus examines in detail three specific archetypal situations: Senses of Vibration by S Butch Queens Up in Pumps Subscribe Get future issues or buy back issues.

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