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Contested Liberalisms: Martineau, Dickens and the Victorian Press

by Iain Crawford
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9781474453141
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Edinburgh University Press
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  • Original Price: GBP 27.99
  • Language: English
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  • Item Weight: 486 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Subjects & Themes / Politics, and Subjects & Themes / Women

Reframes the long-standing critical narrative of the relationship between Harriet Martineau and Charles Dickens
Demonstrates, through new readings of Martineau and Dickens's travel in and writing about the United States, how their encounters with the American public sphere were crucially formative in both writers' careers and in their shaping as journalistsPlaces Martineau and Dickens within the context of Anglo-American liberalism, thereby expanding our reading of them beyond earlier schema framed in narrower terms of political economyExpands understandings of transatlantic literary exchange to offer a more comprehensive reading than those offered through an earlier critical focus simply on the issue of international copyright
Focusing on the importance of Martineau's contribution to the development of the early Victorian press, this book highlights the degree to which the public quarrel between her and Dickens in the mid-1850s represented larger fissures within nineteenth-century liberalism. It places Martineau and Dickens within the context of Anglo-American liberalism and demonstrates how these fissures were embedded within a transatlantic conversation over the role of the press in forming a public sphere essential to the development of a liberal society.

Crawford, Iain: - Iain Crawford is Associate Professor of English at the University of Delaware. His most recent publications include "Harriet Martineau: Women and the World of Journalism in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Britain." In Journalism and the Periodical Press in Nineteenth Century Britain. Ed. Joanne Shattock. Cambridge UP, 2017, "Harriet Martineau: Travel and the Writer." In Harriet Martineau and the Birth of Disciplines. Eds. Valerie Sanders and Gaby Weiner. Farnborough: Ashgate P, 2016, "Massachusetts and America: Dickens, Martineau, and the Republic They Came to See." In Dickens and Massachusetts: The Lasting Legacy of the Commonwealth Visits. Eds. Diana C. Archibald and Joel J. Brattin. Amherst: U of Massachusetts P, 2015.

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