Karen Harvey (University of Birmingh Professor of Cultural History

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The Imposteress Rabbit Breeder

Mary Toft and Eighteenth-Century England

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.

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).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Januar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 146mm x 225mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 340g
• ISBN-13: 9780198734888
• ISBN-10: 0198734883
• Artikelnr.: 57749057