Contested Liberalisms - (Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture) by Iain Crawford (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><p>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. </p><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><strong>Reframes the long-standing critical narrative of the relationship between Harriet Martineau and Charles Dickens</strong></p> <ul> <li>Demonstrates, through new readings of Martineau and Dickens's travel in and writing about the United States, how their encounters with the American public sphere were crucially formative in both writers' careers and in their shaping as journalists</li> <li>Places Martineau and Dickens within the context of Anglo-American liberalism, thereby expanding our reading of them beyond earlier schema framed in narrower terms of political economy</li> <ul></ul> <li>Expands understandings of transatlantic literary exchange to offer a more comprehensive reading than those offered through an earlier critical focus simply on the issue of international copyright</li> <p></p></ul> <p>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. </p><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br>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.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p>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.<p>
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