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Writing British infanticide : child-murder, gender, and print, 1722-1859 / edited by Jennifer Thorn.
Van Pelt Library PR756.I46 W75 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English prose literature--18th century--History and criticism.
- English prose literature.
- Infanticide in literature.
- Children--Crimes against--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Children.
- Children--Crimes against--Great Britain--History--18th century.
- English prose literature--19th century--History and criticism.
- English fiction--History and criticism.
- English fiction.
- Infanticide--Great Britain--History.
- Infanticide.
- Women murderers in literature.
- Children in literature.
- Sex role in literature.
- Murder in literature.
- History.
- Children--Crimes against.
- Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- 292 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Newark : University of Delaware Press ; London : Associated University Presses, [2003]
- Contents:
- Introduction : Stories of child-murder, stories of print / Jennifer Thorn
- Beyond "lewd women" and "wanton wenches" : infanticide and child-murder in the long eighteenth century / Dana Rabin
- "Most revolting murder by a father" : the violent rhetoric of paternal child-murder in the Times (London), 1826-1849 / Melissa Valiska Gregory
- "I would be a witness against my self" : infanticide and communion in colonial New England / Laura Henigman
- Fractured narratives of infanticide in the crime and execution broadside in Britain, 1780-1850 / Miriam Jones
- The gender dynamics of the infanticide prevention campaign in eighteenth-century England and Richardson's history of Sir Charles Grandison / Lisa Zunshine
- "I wou'd not murder my child" : maternity and the necessity of infanticide in two novels by Daniel Defoe / Toni Bowers
- Confession and profession : Adam Bede, infanticide, and the new coroner / Laura C. Berry
- Whose story is this, and who may tell it? : medical evidence versus "common capacity" in the framing of the Elizabeth Canning Case / Judith Moore
- Naturally bad, or dangerously good : Romantic-era narratives of murderous motherhood / Julie Kipp.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-285) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0874138191
- OCLC:
- 51203998
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