Child Murder and British Culture, 1720-1900Cambridge University Press, 08.12.2003 - 278 Seiten 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 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. |
Inhalt
Child murder and commercial society in the early eighteenth century | 16 |
Two kinds of killing in Swifts A Modest Proposal | 20 |
Mandevilles Fable of the Bees | 26 |
the aesthetics of child murder | 31 |
A Squeeze in the Neck for Bastards the uncivilised spectacle of childkilling in the 1770s and 1780s | 37 |
Child murder and primitive man in the Scottish Enlightenment | 40 |
Child murder on the world stage | 47 |
The good mother republican maternity and slavery in Raynal More Barbauld and Yearsley | 55 |
A nation of infanticides child murder and the national forgetting in Adam Bede | 125 |
Memory and the nation | 129 |
Remembering 1803 and 1839 | 134 |
Indian infanticide and the 1857 Uprising | 139 |
Realism and repression in Adam Bede | 147 |
culture and child murder | 155 |
Wraggs daughters child murder towards the fin de siècle | 158 |
Darwin and McLennan | 162 |
The bad mother Cook Hawkesworth and the erotics of looking | 61 |
17981803 Martha Ray the mob and Malthuss Mistress of the Feast | 70 |
Wordsworths The Thorn | 74 |
The French Revolution and the problems of women in Burke and Wollstonecraft | 82 |
Malthuss Dame Nature and the mob | 90 |
The 1803 Offences Against the Person Act | 97 |
Bright and countless everywhere the New Poor Law and the politics of prolific reproduction in 1839 | 99 |
surplus population and the child death factory | 103 |
Carlyle Chadwick and Bryan Procter | 114 |
overproduction and overpopulation and the child death factory | 118 |
Augusta Webster George Eliot and Amy Levy | 166 |
Degeneration and the atavistic child murder in The Descents of Man and Culture and Anarchy | 172 |
Annie Besant and the triumph of the queen bee | 176 |
Child murder and the New Woman in Alans Wife and Jude the Obscurer | 180 |
English babies and Irish changelings | 186 |
On the identity of Marcus | 199 |
Notes | 201 |
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Adam Bede Arreoy baby barbaric Bernard Mandeville Besant Bradlaugh Britain British burial societies Burke Cambridge Charles Bradlaugh Chartist child murder child-killer child-murder cited civilised colonial context crime critique culture Dame Nature Darwin debates degenerate discussion eighteenth century England English Essay evidence evolutionary fairy father female infanticide figure of child George Eliot Hawkesworth Hetty History human Ibid idea India instance Ireland Irish Jason John Jude the Obscure killed literary literature London Malthus Malthus's Malthusian Mandeville Mandeville's Marcus marriage Martha Ray Mary maternal Medea modern Modest Proposal moral mother motif narrative nation New-Born Child Murder nineteenth century novel Omiah Oxford pamphlets poem political Poor Law population presented primitive published queen bee radical references reform representation rhetoric role Rousseau sacrifice satire savage scene Scottish Enlightenment sentimental sexual slave social story Swift Thorn tradition Victorian William woman women Wordsworth Wragg writes
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