Child Murder and British Culture, 1720-1900 (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	2008
First published:	February 2008
Authors:	Josephine McDonagh
Dimensions:	228 x 151 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	296
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-05456-0
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 16th to 18th centuries Promotions
LSN:	0-521-05456-7
Barcode:	9780521054560

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