Contested Liberalisms: Martineau, Dickens and the Victorian Press

by Iain Crawford

Book Overview

Reframes the long-standing critical narrative of the relationship between Harriet Martineau and Charles Dickens
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 journalistsPlaces Martineau and Dickens within the context of Anglo-American liberalism, thereby...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474453147
• ISBN13: 9781474453141
• Release Date: August 2021
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"