Karen Harvey (University of Birmingh Professor of Cultural History

The Imposteress Rabbit Breeder

Mary Toft and Eighteenth-Century England

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Januar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 146mm x 225mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 340g
• ISBN-13: 9780198734888
• ISBN-10: 0198734883
• Artikelnr.: 57749057

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

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'