Imagining Monsters Miscreations of the Self in Eighteenth-Century England

Name: Imagining Monsters Miscreations of the Self in Eighteenth-Century England
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ISBN: 9780226805559

ISBN-10: 0226805557

ISBN-13: 9780226805559

Edition: 1995

Authors: Dennis Todd

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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, Dennis Todd tells the story of this bizarre incident and shows how it illuminates eighteenth-century beliefs about the power of imagination and the problems of personal identity. Mary Toft's outrageous claim was accepted because of a common belief that the imagination of a pregnant woman could deform her fetus, creating a monster within her. Drawing on largely unexamined material from medicine, embryology, philosophy, and popular "monster"…

Book details

List price: $106.00
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 11/1/1995
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 357
Size: 0.64" wide x 0.93" long x 0.09" tall
Weight: 1.364
Language: English



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A New Whim Wham from Guildford



Doctors in Labor



Enthusiasm Delineated



We Beg Leave to Assure You That We Are, &c.



A Lump of Deformity



The Mighty Mother, and Her Son



What the Body Says


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