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Harriet Martineau : authorship, society and empire / edited by Ella Dzelzainis and Cora Kaplan

Published:
Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press, 2010.
New York : Distributed in the United States exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan.
Physical Description:
[xi], 263 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Additional Creators:
Dzelzainis, Ella and Kaplan, Cora

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Contents:
Machine generated contents note: 1.Harriet Martineau, Woman Of Letters -- 2.Harriet Martineau's 'Intellectual Nobility': Gender, Genius And Disability / Linda H. Peterson -- 3.'(Entre Nous, Please!)': Harriet Martineau's Correspondence / A. Laura Stef-Praun -- 4.Self-Presentation And Instability In Harriet Martineau's Autobiography / Deborah A. Logan -- 5.'Socinian And Political-Economy Formulas': Martineau The Unitarian / Lucy Bending -- 6.Provocative Agendas: Martineau's Translation Of Comte / Felicity James -- 7.Domesticating Political Economy: Language, Gender And Economics In The Illustrations Of Political Economy / Lesa Scholl -- 8.Feminism, Speculation And Agency In Harriet Martineau's Illustrations Of Political Economy / Lana L. Dalley -- 9.'Secret Organisation Of Trades': Harriet Martineau And 'Free Labour' In Victorian Britain / Ella Dzelzainis -- 10.Spending Sprees And Machine Accidents: Martineau And The Mystery Of Improvidence / Mark Curthoys -- 11.'With The Practised Eye Of A Deaf Person': Martineau's Travel Writing And The Construction Of The Disabled Traveller / Tamara Ketabgian -- 12.Slavery, Race, History: Harriet Martineau's Ethnographic Imagination / Eitan Bar-Yosef -- 13.Imperial Woman: Harriet Martineau, Geopolitics And The Romance Of Improvement / Cora Kaplan -- 14.Harriet Martineau And India: On Not Writing Accusatory History / Lauren M.E. Goodlad -- 15.Writing A History, Writing A Nation: Harriet Martineau's History Of The Peace / Isobel Armstrong.
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ISBN:
9780719081330 (hbk.)
0719081335 (hbk.)
Note:
"This collection arose out of a one-day conference on Martineau, held on 21 April 2007 at the Institute for English Studies, University of London."--P. [xi].
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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