Gender, Pregnancy and Power in Eighteenth-Century Literature

1. Introduction
Jenifer Buckley

2. Mary Toft’s Performance: Imagining Powerful Pregnancies in Pantomime and Pamphlets
Jenifer Buckley

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

4. “’Tis My Father’s Fault”: Tristram Shandy and Paternal Imagination
Jenifer Buckley

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

6. Romantic Imagination and Maternal Guilt in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein

Jenifer Buckley

7. Afterbirth: The Discourse of Maternal Imagination After the Eighteenth Century
Jenifer Buckley

Keywords: Literature, Eighteenth-Century Literature, History of Science