Harriet Martineau

Authorship, Society and Empire

Inbunden, Engelska, 2010

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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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Utgivningsdatum2010-07-01
Mått138 x 216 x 17 mm
Vikt481 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor288
FörlagManchester University Press
ISBN9780719081330

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List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsNotes on ContributorsIntroductionI. Authorship and Identity1. Harriet Martineau, Woman of Letters2. Harriet Martineau’s ‘Intellectual Nobility’: Gender, Genius, and Disability3. ‘(Entre nous, please!)’: Harriet Martineau’s Correspondence4. Self-presentation and Instability in Harriet Martineau’s Autobiography5. ‘Socinian and Political-Economy Formulas’: Martineau the Unitarian6. Provocative Agendas: Martineau’s Translation of ComteII. Political Economy, Technology and Society7. Domesticating Political Economy: Language, Gender, and Economics in the Illustrations of Political Economy8. Feminism, Speculation and Agency in Harriet Martineau’s Illustrations of Political Economy9. ‘Secret Organisation of Trades’: Harriet Martineau and ‘Free Labour’ in Victorian Britain10. Spending Sprees and Machine Accidents: Martineau and the Mystery of ImprovidenceII. Empire, Race, Nation11. ‘With the Practised Eye of a Deaf Person’: Martineau’s Travel Writing and the Construction of the Disabled Traveller12. Slavery, Race, History: Harriet Martineau’s Ethnographic Imagination13. Imperial Woman: Harriet Martineau, Geopolitics and the Romance of Improvement14.Harriet Martineau and India: On Not Writing Accusatory History15. Writing a History, Writing a Nation: Harriet Martineau’s History of the PeaceRecommended Reading