Child Murder And British Culture, 1720-1900 - Rilegato

Josephine McDonagh

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ISBN 10: 0521781930 ISBN 13: 9780521781930

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 2022

Riassunto

In this wide-ranging study, Josephine McDonagh examines the idea of child murder in British culture in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Analysing texts drawn from economics, philosophy, law, medicine as well as from literature, McDonagh highlights the manifold ways in which child murder echoes and reverberates in a variety of cultural debates and social practices. She places literary works within social, political and cultural contexts, including debates on luxury, penal reform campaigns, slavery, the treatment of the poor, and birth control. She traces a trajectory from Swift's A Modest Proposal through to the debates on the New Woman at the turn of the twentieth century by way of Burke, Wordsworth, Wollstonecraft, George Eliot, George Egerton, and Thomas Hardy, among others. McDonagh demonstrates the haunting persistence of the notion of child murder within British culture in a volume that will be of interest to cultural and literary scholars alike.

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Recensione:

'... in-depth study.' The Times Higher Education Supplement

'There is much here for the literary scholar and the historian, as the book situates an emotive theme within a wide-ranging cultural framework.' BARS Bulletin

Descrizione del libro:

McDonagh examines the idea of child murder in British culture in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. She traces a trajectory from Swift's A Modest Proposal through to the debates on the New Woman at the turn of the twentieth century by way of Burke, Wordsworth, Wollstonecraft, and Hardy, among others.

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• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2022
• ISBN 10: 0521781930
• ISBN 13: 9780521781930
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 100