Table of Contents: “…The biological scope of infanticide and the infanticidal -- Existence costs -- The infanticidal horizon of biological evolution -- pt. 2. …”
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Table of Contents: “…Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Figures; List of contributors; Introduction; Part I Performing bodies; 1 Spectacle and martyrdom: bloody suffering, performed suffering and recited suffering in French tragedy (late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries); 2 The Massacre of the Innocents: infanticide and solace in the seventeenth-century Low Countries; 3 To travel to suffer: towards a reverse anthropology of the early modern colonial body; Part II Beholders; 4 'I feel your pain': some reflections on the (literary) perception of pain; 5 Masochism and the female gaze.…”
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Table of Contents: “…A royal paternity suit : infanticide --…”
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Table of Contents: “…Nesting instincts -- Foreshadowing: The scapigliati and psychoanalysis -- Returning: The poemi conviviali and the uncanny -- Positioning Pascoli in the fin de siècle: The case of infanticide -- Envisioning childhood: memory, desire, pietas, and play -- Remembering the golden age -- Reading beyond the family romance.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Executing race : infanticide narratives -- Belinda : the politics of petitions -- Posthumous constructions : the writings of Ann Eliza Bleecker -- Margaretta Bleecker Faugeres : a post-revolutionary "freedom of mind" -- Lost boundaries : carnivalizing race and sexuality in Tabitha Tenney's Female Quixotism -- Lucy Terry : a life of radical resistance -- Appendix : Lucy Terry's obituary.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Narrative advocacy, outlaw texts, and nineteenth-century Portias -- A novel approach to feminist jurisprudence: narrating the gothic reality of coverture -- Legislative histories and literary herstories: infanticide, bastardy, and the "lewd woman" -- Birth control on trial: law, literature, and libel -- Sitting in judgment: a cross-examination of women, law, and empire -- Appealing women: late-century publication of private wrongs -- Afterword.…”

Table of Contents: “…Routh -- Tender tyranny: the 1839 Custody of Infants Act and custodial incarceration in Wuthering Heights and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall -- Civilization and confession in midcentury representations of infanticide and in Adam Bede -- Conclusion: from pulpy infants to a nation of good animals.…”

Table of Contents: “…Historiographies of witchcraft for feminist advocacy: historical justice in Elizabeth Gaskell's Lois the witch -- Witchcraft precedents as literary history: from The discoverie of witchcraft to Sir Matthew Hale -- The historical turn in witchcraft literature: from Enlightenment historiography to historical realism -- Theories and histories of agency: Mary Wollstonecraft's narrative of the reasonable woman -- Agency, equity, publicity: compos mentis in Charles Reade's Hard cash and lunacy commission reports -- Gendered credibility: testimony in fiction and indecent assault -- Women's legal literacy and pro se representation: from Griffith Gaunt to Georgina Weldon -- Concealing women's mens rea: advocacy for female prisoners and infanticidal mothers -- The secret agency of juries: forging resistance against sodomy prosecution.…”

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Theory, advocacy, and history -- Historiographies of witchcraft for feminist advocacy : historical justice in Elizabeth Gaskell's Lois the witch -- Witchcraft precedents as literary history : from The discoverie of witchcraft to Sir Matthew Hale -- The historical turn in witchcraft literature : from Enlightenment historiography to historical realism -- Theories and histories of agency : Mary Wollstonecraft's narrative of the reasonable woman -- Agency, equity, publicity : compos mentis in Charles Reade's Hard cash and lunacy commission reports -- Gendered credibility : testimony in fiction and indecent assault -- Women's legal literacy and pro se representation : from Griffith Gaunt to Georgina Weldon -- Concealing women's mens rea: advocacy for female prisoners and infanticidal mothers -- The secret agency of juries : forging resistance against sodomy prosecution.…”
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