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Reframes the long-standing critical narrative of the relationship between Harriet Martineau and Charles Dickens to explore the transatlantic development of the early Victorian press
Focusing 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.
Iain Crawford is Associate Professor of English and Faculty Director of the Undergraduate Research Programme at the University of Delaware.
List of contents
Illustrations
Series 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
About the author
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.
