Writing British infanticide : child-murder, gender, and print, 1722-1859 / edited by Jennifer Thorn.

Other author Thorn, Jennifer, 1959-
Format Book
Publication InfoNewark : University of Delaware Press ; London : Associated University Presses, ©2003.
Description292 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects
English prose literature--18th century. --History and criticism.
Infanticide in literature.
Children--Crimes against. --Great Britain. --History. --19th century.
Children--Crimes against. --Great Britain. --History. --18th century.
English prose literature--19th century. --History and criticism.
English fiction--History and criticism.
Infanticide--Great Britain. --History.
Women murderers in literature.
Children in literature.
Sex role in literature.
Murder in literature.

Contents Introduction : Stories of child-murder, stories of print / Jennifer Thorn -- Beyond "lewd women" and "wanton wenches" : infanticide and child-murder in the long eighteenth century / Dana Rabin -- "Most revolting murder by a father" : the violent rhetoric of paternal child-murder in the Times (London), 1826-1849 / Melissa Valiska Gregory -- "I would be a witness against my self" : infanticide and communion in colonial New England / Laura Henigman -- Fractured narratives of infanticide in the crime and execution broadside in Britain, 1780-1850 / Miriam Jones -- The gender dynamics of the infanticide prevention campaign in eighteenth-century England and Richardson's history of Sir Charles Grandison / Lisa Zunshine -- "I wou'd not murder my child" : maternity and the necessity of infanticide in two novels by Daniel Defoe / Toni Bowers -- Confession and profession : Adam Bede, infanticide, and the new coroner / Laura C. Berry -- Whose story is this, and who may tell it? : medical evidence versus "common capacity" in the framing of the Elizabeth Canning Case / Judith Moore -- Naturally bad, or dangerously good : Romantic-era narratives of murderous motherhood / Julie Kipp.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 265-285) and index.
LCCN 2002154221
ISBN0874138191 (alk. paper)

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