Author: Harriet MartineauPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 790
Book Description
History of the Peace; Pictorial History of England During the Thirty Years' Peace 1816-46. New Ed
Author: Harriet MartineauBritish Museum Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: Harriet Martineau's Writing on British History and Military Reform, vol 1
Author: Deborah LoganPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000161714
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 792
Book Description
This volume contains Harriet Martineau's writings on the history of England and its efforts and negotiations to promote peace between 1790 and 1815, providing a detailed account of the political revolutions and democratic and military reforms that shaped England's history.
Sale-catalogues of Second-hand Books on Sale by Henry Sotheran & Co
Author: Sotheran, Henry and CoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 944
Book Description
Catalogue of the Library of the Board of Trade
Author: Great Britain. Board of Trade. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Commerce
Languages : en
Pages : 668
Book Description
Sotheran's Price Current of Literature
Author: Henry Sotheran LtdThe History of England During the Thirty Years' Peace: 1816-1846: 1830-1846
Author: Harriet MartineauPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 766
Book Description
The Quarterly Review (London)
Author: Women, Infanticide and the Press, 1822-1922
Author: Nicola GocPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134778635
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
In her study of anonymous infanticide news stories that appeared from 1822 to 1922 in the heart of the British Empire, in regional Leicester, and in the penal colony of Australia, Nicola Goc uses Critical Discourse Analysis to reveal both the broader patterns and the particular rhetorical strategies journalists used to report on young women who killed their babies. Her study takes Foucault’s perspective that the production of knowledge, of 'facts' and truth claims, and the exercise of power, are inextricably connected to discourse. Newspaper discourses provide a way to investigate the discursive practices that brought the nineteenth-century infanticidal woman - known as ’the Infanticide’ - into being. The actions of the infanticidal mother were understood as a fundamental threat to society, not only because they subverted the ideal of Victorian womanhood but also because a woman’s actions destroyed a man’s lineage. For these reasons, Goc demonstrates, infanticide narratives were politicised in the press and woven into interconnected narratives about the regulation of women, women's rights, the family, the law, welfare, and medicine that dominated nineteenth-century discourse. For example, the Times used individual stories of infanticide to argue against the Bastardy Clause in the Poor Law that denied unmarried women and their children relief. Infanticide narratives often adopted the conventions of the courtroom drama, with the young transgressive female positioned against a body of male authoritarian figures, a juxtaposition that reinforced male authority over women. Alive to the marked differences between various types of newspapers, Goc's study offers a rich and nuanced discussion of the Victorian press's fascination with infanticide. At the same time, infanticide news stories shaped how women who killed their babies were known and understood in ways that pathologised their actions. This, in turn, influenced medical, judicial, and welfare policies regar
The Child, the State and the Victorian Novel
Author: Laura C. BerryPublisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 9780813934570
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
The Child, the State, and the Victorian Novel traces the the story of victimized childhood to its origins in nineteenth-century Britain. Almost as soon as "childhood" became a distinct category, Laura C. Berry contends, stories of children in danger were circulated as part of larger debates about child welfare and the role of the family in society. Berry examines the nineteenth-century fascination with victimized children to show how novels and reform writings reorganize ideas of self and society as narratives of childhood distress. Focusing on classic childhood stories such as Oliver Twist and novels that are not conventionally associated with particular social problems, such as Dickens's Dombey and Son, the Brontë sisters' Wuthering Heights and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, and George Eliot's Adam Bede, Berry shows the ways in which fiction that purports to deal with private life, particularly the domain of the family, nevertheless intervenes in public and social debates. At the same time she examines medical, legal, charitable, and social-relief writings to show how these documents provide crucial sources in the development of social welfare and modern representations of the family.