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Monstrous Motherhood will compel scholars in eighteenth-century studies, women's studies, family history, and cultural studies to reevaluate a foundational assumption that has driven much of the discourse in their fields.

Motherhood --- Mother and child in literature. --- Mothers in literature. --- English literature --- Maternity --- Mothers --- Parenthood --- History --- History and criticism. --- England --- Intellectual life

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The premise of this volume is that the ubiquity of lactation imagery in early modern visual culture and the discourse on breastfeeding in humanist, religious, medical, and literary writings is a distinct cultural phenomenon that deserves systematic study. Chapters by art historians, social and legal historians, historians of science, and literary scholars explore some of the ambiguities and contradictions surrounding the issue, and point to the need for further study, in particular in the realm of lactation imagery in the visual arts. This volume builds on existing scholarship on representations of the breast, the iconography of the Madonna Lactans, allegories of abundance, nature, and charity, women mystics' food-centered practices of devotion, the ubiquitous practice of wet-nursing, and medical theories of conception. It is informed by studies on queer kinship in early modern Europe, notions of sacred eroticism in pre-tridentine Catholicism, feminist investigations of breastfeeding as a sexual practice, and by anthropological and historical scholarship on milk exchange and ritual kinship in ancient Mediterranean and medieval Islamic societies. Proposing a variety of different methods and analytical frameworks within which to consider instances of lactation imagery, breastfeeding practices, and their textual references, this volume also offers tools to support further research on the topic.

History of civilization --- Thematology --- Nutritionary hygiene. Diet --- Iconography --- Mother and child in literature --- Breastfeeding in literature --- Breastfeeding in art --- Women and religion --- Wet nurses in literature --- Breastfeeding --- History --- Mother and child in literature. --- Breastfeeding in literature. --- Breastfeeding in art. --- Wet nurses in literature. --- History. --- Mother and child in literature - History --- Breastfeeding in literature - History --- Breastfeeding in art - History --- Women and religion - History --- Wet nurses in literature - History --- Breastfeeding - History --- Lactation in art --- Lactation in literature --- Arts, Medieval --- Literature, Medieval --- Arts, Renaissance --- European literature --- Renaissance arts --- Breast feeding in literature --- Breast feeding in art --- History and criticism

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Thematology --- French literature --- Psychological study of literature --- Racine, Jean --- Mother and child in literature --- Psychoanalysis and literature --- Mothers in literature --- Racine, Jean, --- Characters --- Mothers --- Psychoanalysis and literature - France --- Racine, Jean, - 1639-1699 - Characters - Mothers --- Racine, Jean, - 1639-1699

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Psychoanalysis and literature --- Shelley, Percy Bysshe --- Criticism and interpretation --- Shelley, Percy Bysshe, - 1792-1822 - Criticism and interpretation. --- Mother and child in literature. --- Motherhood in literature. --- Infants in literature. --- Infants in literature --- Mother and child in literature --- Motherhood in literature --- Poetry --- Subjectivity in literature --- Psychological aspects --- Shelley, P. B. --- Sheli, Persi Bish, --- Hsüeh-lai, --- Hermit of Marlow, --- Marlow, --- Victor, --- Shelli, Persi-Bishi, --- Šéli, Pérsi Ba, --- Shilī, --- Selley, Persy Byss, --- Shelli, P., --- Шелли, Перси Биши, --- שלי, פרסי ביש --- שלי, פרסי ביש, --- שעלי, פוירסי --- شلي --- Śeli, Pārsi Bīśa, --- Criticism and interpretation.

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Etudes portant sur les représentations de la déesse de l'amour dans la littérature depuis l'Antiquité (de Virgile et Ovide à A. Rimbaud), et notamment sur ses relations complexes avec sa progéniture, issue de multiples unions, et sa difficulté à jouer son rôle de mère.

Venus --- Mother goddesses --- Mother and child in literature --- Déesses mères --- Mère et enfant dans la littérature --- Venus (Roman deity) --- Déesses mères --- Mère et enfant dans la littérature --- Comparative literature --- Thematology --- Literature --- Littérature --- Themes, motives --- Thèmes, motifs --- Aphrodite [Mythological character] --- Venus [Mythological character] --- Themes, motives.