Child murder and British culture, 1720-1900
Josephine McDonagh (Author)
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.
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xiii, 278 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm
9780521054560, 0521054567
1120925659
Child murder and commercial society in the early eighteenth century
'A squeeze in the neck for bastards': the uncivilised spectacle of child-killing in the 1770s and 1780s
1789/1803: Martha Ray, the mob, and Malthus' mistress of the feast
'Bright and countless everywhere': the new poor law and the politics of prolific reproduction in 1839
'A nation of infanticides': child murder and the national forgetting in Adam Bede
Wragg's daughters: child murder towards the Fin-de-Sic̈le
English babies and Irish changelings
Originally published: 2003