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Imagining Monsters – Miscreations of the Self in Eighteenth–Century England Dennis Todd 1st edition
Imagining Monsters – Miscreations of the Self in Eighteenth–Century England
Dennis Todd
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.
358 pages, 3 halftones
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | November 15, 1995 |
| ISBN13 | 9780226805566 |
| Publishers | The University of Chicago Press |
| Pages | 358 |
| Dimensions | 231 × 154 × 28 mm · 554 g |
| Language | English |