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Harriet Martineau : the poetics of moralism

Title
Harriet Martineau : the poetics of moralism / Shelagh Hunter.
Author
Hunter, Shelagh.
Publication
Brookfield, Vt. : Scolar Press, [1995], ©1995.

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Description
x, 274 pages; 24 cm
Subject
  • Martineau, Harriet, 1802-1876 > Ethics
  • Women and literature > England > History > 19th century
  • Moral conditions in literature
  • Ethics in literature
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-265) and index.
Contents
Harriet Martineau: a brief chronology and selected writings -- 1. A career launched. 1.1. Life and life-story. 1.2. Action in words. 1.3. Governess to the nation -- 2. Mrs Barbauld's daughter. 2.1. Practical divinity examined: the Monthly Repository papers. 2.2. Practical divinity practised: Devotional Exercises for the Use of Young Persons. 2.3. Practical atheism: Letters on the Laws of Man's Nature and Development -- 3. Moral health: a progress of worship. 3.1. The Wordsworth years: periodical essays. 3.2. Moral taste and the Bible: Traditions of Palestine and Eastern Life Past and Present -- 4. Social criticism. 4.1. Landscape and Politics: Society in America. 4.2. America: the consequences.
ISBN
1859281354 (cloth)
LCCN
95007433
OCLC
  • 32129950
  • ocm32129950
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries