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Imagining monsters : miscreations of the self in eighteenth-century England

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
Print Book, English, 1995
University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1995