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Harriet Martineau: Authorship, Society and Empire
Contributor(s): Dzelzainis, Ella (Editor), Kaplan, Cora (Editor)

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 ISBN: 0719081335     ISBN-13: 9780719081330
Publisher: Manchester University Press
OUR PRICE: $133.00  

Binding Type: Hardcover
Published: July 2010
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures
Dewey: 301.092
Physical Information: 1.2" H x 5.6" W x 8.5" L (1.10 lbs) 288 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - British Isles
Features: Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
 
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Publisher Description:
Harriet Martineau' responds to the strong revival of interest in her life and writing, exploring Martineau's controversial views through her innovative use of popular cultural forms-journalism, travel writing, didactic fiction, novels, translation, autobiography and history. This is the first
collection of essays to revisit and reassess Martineau's leading place in Victorian culture and in the development of nineteenth-century liberalism. Distinguished contributors-including Isobel Armstrong, Lauren Goodlad, Catherine Hall, Deborah Logan and Linda Peterson-offer critical analyses of her
trailblazing career as a professional 'woman of letters'.

The essays collected here move from personal to global concerns in Martineau's oeuvre. The opening essays centre on her bold self-fashioning as a writer, while the second section focuses on the domestic complexities of laissez-faire liberalism in her economic and social vision. Finally, the volume
analyses her provocative writings on race, Empire and history - from Atlantic slavery to the Indian Mutiny - demonstrating the international breadth and impact of a remarkable career.
 
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