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Writing British infanticide : child-murder, gender, and print, 1722-1859
- Title
- Writing British infanticide : child-murder, gender, and print, 1722-1859 / edited by Jennifer Thorn.
- Publication
- Newark : University of Delaware Press ; London : Associated University Presses, c2003.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Thorn, Jennifer, 1959-
- Description
- 292 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
- Subjects
- Murder in literature
- Infanticide > Great Britain > History
- Children in literature
- Sex role in literature
- English prose literature > 18th century > History and criticism
- Infanticide in literature
- English fiction > History and criticism
- Children > Crimes against > Great Britain > History > 18th century
- English prose literature > 19th century > History and criticism
- Women murderers in literature
- Children > Crimes against > Great Britain > History > 19th century
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-285) and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 03-12018
- ISBN
- 0874138191 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2002154221
- OCLC
- 51203998
- Title
- Writing British infanticide : child-murder, gender, and print, 1722-1859 / edited by Jennifer Thorn.
- Imprint
- Newark : University of Delaware Press ; London : Associated University Presses, c2003.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-285) and index.
- Added Author
- Thorn, Jennifer, 1959-
- Research Call Number
- JFE 03-12018