Contested Liberalisms : : Martineau, Dickens and the Victorian Press / / Iain Crawford.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
• VerfasserIn: Crawford, Iain,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture : ECSVC
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (336 p.) :; 10 B/W illustrations

Reframes the long-standing critical narrative of the relationship between Harriet Martineau and Charles DickensDemonstrates, 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 journalistsPlaces 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 economyExpands 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 copyrightFocusing 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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Series Editor’s Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 ‘The display of woman’s naked mind to the gaze of the world’: Harriet Martineau and the Press, 1830–1834 -- Chapter 2 Martineau, the Press and Jacksonian America -- Chapter 3 American Notes and the ‘frightful engine’ of the Press -- Chapter 4 ‘Yield to the mighty mind of the Popular Instructor’: Print and the Press in Martin Chuzzlewit -- Chapter 5 ‘Called hither by the commotion of the times’: Martineau and the Press, 1837–1850 -- Chapter 6 The Factory Controversy: ‘What I dread is being silenced’ -- Chapter 7 The End of Whig History: Dickens, Martineau and the Mid-Victorian Press -- Conclusion: ‘Likeness in unlikeness’ -- Bibliography -- Index