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Acknowledgments ix Introduction: The Ideology of Domesticity Reexamined 1 1 Mothers of the Apocalypse: Maternal Allegory and Myth in Swift and Pope 25 2 All Too Human: Maternal Monstrosity and Hester Thrale 46 3 Suffer the Little Children? The Infanticidal Mother in Literature 74 4 Until Proven Innocent: Infanticide in the Public Record and in Court 99 5 Be Monstrous or Be Marginal: Stepmothers in Literature 123 6 Pin the Tale on the Stepmother: Elizabeth Allen and the Burneys 149 7 But She’s Not There: The Rise of the Spectral Mother 170 Notes 203 Bibliography 271 Index 285 Contents This page intentionally left blank ...

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