Contested Liberalisms

Martineau, Dickens and the Victorian Press

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

AvIain Crawford,University of Delaware) Crawford, Iain (Associate Professor of English

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Reframes the long-standing critical narrative of the relationship between Harriet Martineau and Charles DickensDemonstrates, 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 copyrightFocusing 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.

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Utgivningsdatum2019-12-17
Mått156 x 234 x 27 mm
Vikt662 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieEdinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture
Antal sidor336
FörlagEdinburgh University Press
ISBN9781474453134
UtmärkelserRunner-up for Robert and Vineta Colby Scholarly Book Prize 2021

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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.

IllustrationsSeries Editor’s Preface Acknowledgements Introduction ‘The Display of Woman’s Naked Mind to the Gaze of the World’: Harriet Martineau and the Press, 1830–4 Martineau, the Press, and Jacksonian America American Notes and the ‘frightful engine’ of the Press ‘Yield to the mighty mind of the Popular Instructor’: Print and the Press in Martin Chuzzlewit ‘Called hither by the commotion of the times’: Martineau and the Press, 1837–50 The Factory Controversy: ‘What I dread is being silenced’ The End of Whig History: Dickens, Martineau and the Mid-Victorian Press Conclusion Bibliography Index

Crawford's book is placed as a highly competitive runner up. It is commended as an impressively weighty and lucid book that negotiates its way carefully through its tripartite interests in liberalism, transatlantic cross-cultural exchange and the development of the periodical press. It offers new approaches to both Martineau and Dickens in its scholarly study of their contrasting contributions to emerging formulations of progressive social theory in ways that richly reveal the intellectual heft and significance of their writings in the context of the development of liberal thought. Crawford draws out the details of their relationship masterfully in this sophisticated and erudite work that is full of rich detail related with minute attention to scholarly conversation. A pleasure to read, this book is an important contribution to the history of the periodical press, to Dickens studies, and especially to our understanding of the importance of Harriet Martineau.