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Child Murder and British Culture, 1720–1900
McDonagh, Josephine (University of Oxford)
Child Murder and British Culture, 1720–1900
McDonagh, Josephine (University of Oxford)
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.
296 pages, 6 b/w illus.
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | January 21, 2008 |
ISBN13 | 9780521054560 |
Publishers | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 296 |
Dimensions | 159 × 230 × 18 mm · 456 g |