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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 |