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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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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Child Murder and British Culture, 1720-1900
• Author: Josephine McDonagh
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 296
• EAN: 9780521054560
• ISBN: 0521054567
• ID: 02020091
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 456 g
• Dimensions: 230 × 159 × 18 mm
• Date of publishing: 21. January 2008

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