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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.

Imagining Monsters Miscreations of the Self in

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: 11/1/1995 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780226805559, 978-0226805559
      ISBN10: 0226805557
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      Literary studies: general Anthropology

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      Book Synopsis
      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.

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