Contested Liberalisms: Martineau, Dickens and the Victorian Press

ISBN-13: 9781474453141 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 336 str.

Iain Crawford

Opis

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.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements; Illustrations; Introduction; 1. ‘The Display of Woman's Naked Mind to the Gaze of the World’: Harriet Martineau and the Press, 1830-1834; 2. Martineau, the Press, and Jacksonian America; 3. American Notes and the ‘frightful engine’ of the Press 1324. ‘Yield to the mighty mind of the Popular Instructor’: Print and the Press in Martin Chuzzlewit; 5. ‘Called hither by the commotion of the times’: Martineau and the Press, 1837-50; 6. The Factory Controversy: ‘What I dread is being silenced’; 7. The End of Whig History: Dickens, Martineau and the Mid-Victorian Press; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.