Harriet Martineau

Ella Dzelzainis is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature at the University of Newcastle. Cora Kaplan is Honorary Professor in the School of English and Drama at Queen Mary, University of London and Emeritus Professor of English at Southampton University

• 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