Child murder and British culture, 1720-1900 / Josephine McDonagh.
Child murder and British culture, 1720-1900 / Josephine McDonagh.
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New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Date
2003.
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N820.9355/25
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English
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p. cm.
Contents
Introduction: plots and protagonists -- 1. Child murder and commercial society in the early eighteenth century -- 2. 'A Squeeze in the Neck for Bastards': the uncivilised spectacle of child-killing in the 1770s and 1780s -- 3. 1798/1803: Martha Ray, the mob, and Malthus's Mistress of the Feast -- 4....
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New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
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New York (State)
Date Published
2003.
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"Josephine McDonagh examines the idea of child murder in British culture in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Analysing texts drawn from economics, philosophy, law, and medicine as well as from literature, McDonagh highlights the manifold ways in which child murder echoes and reverberates in a variety of cultural debates and social practices...
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Child murder and British culture, 1720-1900 / Josephine McDonagh.
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Child murder & British culture, 1720-1900.
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Includes bibliographical references.
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N820.9355/25
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74VKDljmLdEb
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0521781930 (hardback)
9780521781930
0521781930
9780521781930 (hardback)
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820.9355
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991019155819702626
