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The Imposteress Rabbit Breeder
Mary Toft and Eighteenth-Century England
Buch von Karen Harvey
Sprache: Englisch

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Beschreibung
In September 1726, Mary Toft was found to have given birth to seventeen rabbits in Godalming, Surrey. The case caused a sensation and was reported widely in newspapers, popular pamphlets, poems and caricatures.
In September 1726, Mary Toft was found to have given birth to seventeen rabbits in Godalming, Surrey. The case caused a sensation and was reported widely in newspapers, popular pamphlets, poems and caricatures.
Über den Autor
Karen Harvey is Professor of Cultural History at the University of Birmingham. She studied at the University of Manchester and Royal Holloway, University of London and is the author of several works on eighteenth-century Britain. Her books include The Little Republic Masculinity and Domestic Authority in Eighteenth-Century Britain(OUP, 2012), and Reading Sex in the Eighteenth Century Bodies and Gender in English Erotic Culture (CUP, 2008).
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • Prelude

  • I: Surrey

  • 1: The town: 'peaceable neighbours who are willing to live quietly'

  • 2: The women: 'they workt for me'

  • 3: The births: 'a Fact of which there was no Instance in Nature'

  • II: London

  • 4: The bagnio: 'several persons of distinction'

  • 5: Confession: 'I was loath She should touch me'

  • 6: The punishment: 'some judge very hard of ye poor woman'

  • III: The public

  • 7: The press: a 'filthy story at best'

  • 8: Body politics: 'the beautiful uniform Order'

  • 9: Afterlife: 'The Impostress Rabbett breeder'

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Geschichte
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Buch
Seiten: 224
Inhalt: Gebunden
ISBN-13: 9780198734888
ISBN-10: 0198734883
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Harvey, Karen
Hersteller: Oxford University Press
Maße: 146 x 225 x 23 mm
Von/Mit: Karen Harvey
Erscheinungsdatum: 23.01.2020
Gewicht: 0,34 kg
preigu-id: 117444486
Über den Autor
Karen Harvey is Professor of Cultural History at the University of Birmingham. She studied at the University of Manchester and Royal Holloway, University of London and is the author of several works on eighteenth-century Britain. Her books include The Little Republic Masculinity and Domestic Authority in Eighteenth-Century Britain(OUP, 2012), and Reading Sex in the Eighteenth Century Bodies and Gender in English Erotic Culture (CUP, 2008).
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • Prelude

  • I: Surrey

  • 1: The town: 'peaceable neighbours who are willing to live quietly'

  • 2: The women: 'they workt for me'

  • 3: The births: 'a Fact of which there was no Instance in Nature'

  • II: London

  • 4: The bagnio: 'several persons of distinction'

  • 5: Confession: 'I was loath She should touch me'

  • 6: The punishment: 'some judge very hard of ye poor woman'

  • III: The public

  • 7: The press: a 'filthy story at best'

  • 8: Body politics: 'the beautiful uniform Order'

  • 9: Afterlife: 'The Impostress Rabbett breeder'

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Geschichte
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Buch
Seiten: 224
Inhalt: Gebunden
ISBN-13: 9780198734888
ISBN-10: 0198734883
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Harvey, Karen
Hersteller: Oxford University Press
Maße: 146 x 225 x 23 mm
Von/Mit: Karen Harvey
Erscheinungsdatum: 23.01.2020
Gewicht: 0,34 kg
preigu-id: 117444486
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