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<P class=MsoBodyText>Hags, tarts, killers, and freaks-this compelling collection explores the representations of eighteenth-century female aberrations and grotesques accounts of women’s transgressive behavior in eighteenth-century literature and social documents have much to teach us about constructions of femininity during the period often identified as having formed our society’s gender norms. Lewd and Notorious explores the eighteenth century’s shadows, inhabited by marginal women of many kinds and degrees of contrariness. The reader meets Laetitia Pilkington, whose sexual indiscretions caused her to fall from social and literary grace to become an articulate memoirist of personal scandal, and Elizabeth Brownrigg, who tortured and starved her young servants, propelling herself to an infamy comparable to Susan Smith’s or Myra Hindley’s. More awful women wait between these covers to teach us about society’s reception (and construction) of their debauchery and dangerousness.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></P> <P class=MsoBodyText>The authors draw upon a rich range of contemporary texts to illuminate the lives of

Author

Katharine Kittredge

Publisher

The University of Michigan Press

Published

2003

Language

EN

ISBN

9780472110902

Subjects

Literary Fiction, True Crime, History