Imagining monsters – miscreations of the self in eighteenth–century england
Auteur :
Todd, Dennis
Éditeur :
The University of Chicago Press
ISBN :
9780226805566
Date de publication :
15 nov. 1995
Dimensions :
22,7 x 16,7 x 2,1 cm
Poids :
542 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
In 1726, an illiterate woman from Surrey named Mary Toft announced that she had given birth to 17 rabbits. This study recreates the story of this incident and shows how it illuminates 18th-century beliefs about the power of imagination and the problems of personal identity.