Child Murder and British Culture, 1720-1900
Book Description
Josephine McDonagh examines the concept of child murder in British culture in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries by analyzing texts drawn from economics, philosophy, law, and medicine, as well as literature. McDonagh highlights the ways in which child murder echoes and reverberates in a variety of cultural debates and social practices. She traces a trajectory from Swift's A Modest Proposal th... More
Book Information
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Binding | Hardcover (2 editions) |
Reading Level | Uncategorized |
# of Pages | 296 |
ISBN-10 | 0521781930 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0521781930 |
Publication Date | 12/08/2003 |
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