Writing British Infanticide: Child-Murder, Gender, and Print, 1722-1859
Book Description
Writing British Infanticide tracks the ways that the circulation of narratives of child-murder in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain shaped perceptions and punishments of the crime and, more elusively, hierarchies of class and gender. The essays brought together in this volume pose the question: How are we to understand the proliferation of writing about child-murder in eighteenth- and nin... More
Book Information
Publisher | Lexington Books |
Binding | Hardcover (2 editions) |
Reading Level | Uncategorized |
# of Pages | 292 |
ISBN-10 | 1611492270 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1611492279 |
Publication Date | 06/01/2003 |
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