Preface
Raymond Stephanson and Darren Wagner, “Introduction”
PART I: Generation, Species, Breeding
1. Staffan Müller-Wille, “Reproducing Species”
2. Ivano Dal Prete, “Cultures and Politics of Preformism in Eighteenth-Century Italy”
3. Peter Bowler, “Theories of Generation and the History of Life”
4. John C. Waller, “Born to Virtue: Ideas of Generation and the Eighteenth-Century Elites”
5. Susanne Lettow, “Improving Reproduction: Articulations of Breeding and ‘Race-Mixing’ in French and German Discourse (1750–1800)”
6. Christine Lehleiter, “New Attention to Incest and Inbreeding as Ways of Reproduction around 1800: A Case Study of the Mignon Episode in Goethe’s Wilhelm Meister”
PART II: Fetus, Child, Mother
7. Sebastian Pranghofer, “Changing Views on Generation—Images of the Unborn”
8. Corinna Wagner, “The Problem of Maternal Violence: Anatomy, Forensic Medicine, and the Mind”
9. David M. Turner, “Birth Anomaly and Childhood Disability”
10. Heather Meek, “Motherhood, Hysteria, and the Eighteenth-Century Woman Writer”
11. Sonja Boon, “Mothers and Others: The Politics of Lactation in Medical Consultation Letters Addressed to Samuel-Auguste Tissot”
12. Jennifer Golightly, “Reproduction in British Women’s Novels of the 1790s”
PART III: Pathologies, Body Parts, Display
13. Sarah Toulalan, “‘Unfit for Generation’: Body Size and Reproduction”
14. Pam Lieske, “Deformity of the Maternal Pelvis in Late Eighteenth-Century Britain”
15. Sally Frampton, “The Debris of Life: Diseased Ovaries in Eighteenth-Century Medicine”
16. Lianne McTavish, “Intestinal Chaos: Tapeworms, Dead Flesh, and Reproduction during the Eighteenth Century”
17. Darren Wagner, “A Bit Exposed: Displays of Male Genitals”
PART IV Attitudes, Tropes, Satire
18. Marcia D. Nichols, “The Aristotle Texts, Sex, and the American Woman”
19. Corrinne Harol and Jessica MacQueen, “Eve’s Labours: Procreation, Reproduction, and the Politics of Generation in Paradise Lost”
20. Julie Peakman and Sarah Watkins, “Making Babies: Eighteenth-Century Attitudes Toward Conception, Reproduction and Childbirth”
21. Donald W. Nichol, “Making the Rounds in the Old & New Foundling Hospitals for Wit: (Mis)Conceptions about Conceiving”
22. George Rousseau, “Panspermist Jokes, Reproductive Technologies, and Virgin Births: Some Enlightenment Luciniades”
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