Monstrous Motherhood: Eighteenth-Century Culture and the Ideology of Domesticity

Index

Index abandonment: maternal, 77, 85, 100, 138, 167, 207n31, 230n16, 248n59; paternal, 104, 153, 178, 200, 240n16; and Hester Thrale, 49, 64–65, 224nn60–61, 230n15 Abraham (Bible), 75, 228n4 Absalom (Bible), 84, 228n5 absence, maternal, 7–11, 18–19, 23–24, 170–202, 210n47, 233n32, 250n12, 251n23, 265n15, 265n17, 267n34; and Elizabeth Allen Burney, 152, 155, 156; and gothic narrative, 265n21; in The Governess, 192–93, 268n35; and nostalgia, 125, 139, 143, 148, 175, 178–79, 193–94, 252n30; and textuality, 174–75, 192–93, 264n14; of Hester Thrale, 65, 68, 70. See also spectral motherhood absence, paternal, 144, 151, 167 accoucheur (man-midwife), 41–42, 216n44 Adam (Paradise Lost), 36, 44, 233n33 Adam Bede (Eliot), 230n16 Addams, Margaret, 104 Addison, Joseph, 99, 222n42 Adeline Mowbray (Opie), 15, 23, 173–75, 262n6, 264n14 Adventures of David Simple (Sarah Fielding), 15, 22, 126, 131, 136–40, 196, 200, 250n17, 252nn25–30, 258n23 agency, maternal, 16–20, 45–47, 54–55, 71–72, 84, 96, 144–47, 180, 185, 212n9, 216n45; and absence, 171, 179, 194; and biology, 245n41; containment of, 26, 107, 115, 194; and devilish influence, 106–7, 117, 240n12, 245n44, 246n50; and domestic ideology, 9, 12, 24, 79, 170, 195–96, 201; and infanticide, 74, 76–77, 100–101, 104, 106, 115–20, 245n44, 246n47; and stepmotherhood, 22–23, 123–24, 134, 140–41 allegory, 25–45, 213n22, 215nn42–43 Allen, Bessy, 151, 157, 256n8, 258n20, 260n37 Allen, Elizabeth. See Burney, Elizabeth Allen Allen, Maria, 151–52, 157, 258nn20–21, 260n37 Allen, Sarah, 245n45, 247n53 Allen, Stephen, 151–53, 157, 164–66, 258n20, 260n37 Allestree, Richard, 12, 207n29, 220n27 Allworthy, Bridget (Tom Jones), 23–24, 176–78, 263n11, 265nn15–16 Ambitious Stepmother, The (Rowe), 22, 123–25 Amelia (Henry Fielding), 15, 124, 205n16, 210n42, 248n1, 265n15 Amy (Roxana), 77, 79, 176–77, 230n17, 264n12 Andromache, 76, 228n6 Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson (Piozzi), 69, 71, 226nn81–82 Anna Karenina (Tolstoi), 13 Anolik, Ruth, 8, 180–81 anxiety, social, 19, 26, 36–37, 72, 118, 120, 138, 170–74; and female autonomy, 139, 195, 207n30, 245n44, 246n1; and female body, 20, 46, 198, 212n11; and infanticidal narrative, 21, 116; and stepmotherhood, 23, 61, 123 Arabella (Female Quixote), 130–31, 250n15 Argyle, Duke of (Heart of Midlothian), 91–92, 232nn26–27, 232n30, 236n52 Aristotle’s Master-piece, 211n6, 217n49 Armstrong, Nancy, 1–2, 6–9, 14, 196, 203n2, 203n4, 204n11, 205n13, 206n18 Artaban (Ambitious Stepmother), 123–24 Artaxerxes (Ambitious Stepmother), 123–24 Artemisa, Queen (Ambitious Stepmother), 123–24 Astyanax, 76, 228nn6–7 Aubin, Penelope, 22, 126, 131, 134–35, 250n17, 251n18, 251n22 286 index Austen, Jane, 6, 14, 16, 55, 205n12, 205n15, 211n4, 257n13; stepmothers in, 22, 140, 253n31 authority, female, 19, 27–32, 35, 45, 94–95, 210n45, 212n17, 215n43, 233n34, 266n25; and absent mothers, 171, 176, 179, 181, 194, 196, 198, 265n17; of Elizabeth Allen Burney, 151, 167; and domestic ideology, 12–13, 16, 24, 170, 195, 199, 201, 203n4, 207n30; in The Governess, 187–89, 268n35, 268n39; and infanticide, 105, 107, 116; and stepmotherhood, 22, 125, 139–40, 144, 151, 158, 168; and Hester Thrale, 46, 54–55, 60, 65, 71–72, 219n21, 226n80 authority, male, 27–28, 34, 38–40, 125, 130, 134, 200, 208n36, 216n45, 250n14, 266n25 authorship, 19, 34–35, 40, 173, 262n6; female, 11–12, 26, 37–38, 69, 206n24, 207n27, 215n36, 215n38, 226n80, 242n27 autonomy, female, 71–73, 118, 139, 176–77, 187, 191–95, 207n30, 211n3, 245n44, 246n1, 267n33 B, Mr. (Pamela), 4, 7, 13, 15, 142, 254n39, 262n4, 265n17 ballads, 10, 22, 74, 126, 129–30, 227n1, 237n59, 239n10, 250n11 Bannet, Eve Tavor, 1 Baretti, Giuseppe (Joseph), 53, 57, 70, 217n1, 219n21, 221nn33–34, 256n7 Barlow, Thomas, 155 Bateman, Pleasant, 110, 242n29 Bates, Mrs. (Emma), 7 Battle of the Books (Swift), 19, 25–43, 55, 126, 196, 198, 213n21, 262n6. See also Criticism Beggar’s Opera (Gay), 122 behavior, female, 1–7, 10–12, 63, 77, 80–81, 189–92, 194, 206nn22–23, 207nn28–29, 207n31, 241n24; and domestic ideology, 2, 5, 7, 18–19, 46–47, 51; and submissiveness, 12, 48, 100–101, 114–15, 118–20, 170, 186, 207n29, 252n28, 268n38. See also conduct literature Behn, Aphra (Battle of the Books), 37–38 Belinda (Edgeworth), 16, 23, 174–75, 210n47, 216n45, 262n5, 263nn8–9 Belmont, Caroline Evelyn (Evelina), 178, 250n16 Belmont, Sir John (Evelina), 130–31, 178, 200, 208n37, 250n16 Bennet, Elizabeth (court records), 242n29, 246n48, 246n51 Bennet, Elizabeth (Pride and Prejudice), 95 Bennet, Jane (Pride...