Imagining Monsters: Miscreations of the Self in Eighteenth-Century England - Dennis Todd - Books - The University of Chicago Press - 9780226805559 - November 1, 1995
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Imagining Monsters: Miscreations of the Self in Eighteenth-Century England


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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.


357 pages

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released November 1, 1995
ISBN13 9780226805559
Publishers The University of Chicago Press
Pages 357
Dimensions 150 × 220 × 20 mm   ·   624 g
Language English  

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