Reframes the long-standing critical narrative of the relationship
between Harriet Martineau and Charles Dickens Demonstrates, through
new readings of Martineau and Dickens's travel in and writing about
the United States, how their encounters with the American public
sphere were crucially formative in both writers' careers and in
their shaping as journalists Places Martineau and Dickens within
the context of Anglo-American liberalism, thereby expanding our
reading of them beyond earlier schema framed in narrower terms of
political economy Expands understandings of transatlantic literary
exchange to offer a more comprehensive reading than those offered
through an earlier critical focus simply on the issue of
international copyright Focusing on the importance of Martineau's
contribution to the development of the early Victorian press, this
book highlights the degree to which the public quarrel between her
and Dickens in the mid-1850s represented larger fissures within
nineteenth-century liberalism. It places Martineau and Dickens
within the context of Anglo-American liberalism and demonstrates
how these fissures were embedded within a transatlantic
conversation over the role of the press in forming a public sphere
essential to the development of a liberal society.
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