Gender, Pregnancy, and Power in Eighteenth-Century Literature: The Maternal Imagination
Author
Jenifer Buckley
Content
viii + 292 pp., bibl., index
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan/Springer Nature
Description
Uses dramas, medical texts, novels, poems, and popular print works to examine the idea that a pregnant woman could use thoughts and feelings to influence the development of her fetus.
Main subject
Literature and Literary Criticism
ISBN
9783319538341 (cloth); 9783319538358 (ebook)
Citation
Buckley, Jenifer. Gender, Pregnancy, and Power in Eighteenth-Century Literature: The Maternal Imagination. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan/Springer Nature, 2017. Sylvia. Accessed October 13, 2025. https://sylvia.library.wisc.edu/catalog/SYL333.
