Gender, Pregnancy and Power in Eighteenth-Century Literature

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Mary Toft’s Performance: Imagining Powerful Pregnancies in Pantomime and Pamphlets

Chapter 3 “For One Would be Loath to Spoil a Son and Heir”: The Power of Maternal Imagination in Fiction of the Mid Eighteenth-Century

Chapter 4 “’Tis My Father’s Fault”: Tristram Shandy and Paternal Imagination

Chapter 5 “I’ll Repress the Rising Anguish/Till Thine Eyes Behold the Light”: Passionate Responsibility in Maternal Poetry

Chapter 7 Afterbirth: The Discourse of Maternal Imagination After the Eighteenth Century