In this wide-ranging study, Josephine McDonagh examines the
idea of child murder in British culture in the eighteenth and
nineteenth centuries. Analysing texts drawn from economics,
philosophy, law, medicine as well as from literature, McDonagh
highlights the manifold ways in which child murder echoes and
reverberates in a variety of cultural debates and social practices.
She places literary works within social, political and cultural
contexts, including debates on luxury, penal reform campaigns,
slavery, the treatment of the poor, and birth control. She traces a
trajectory from Swift''s A Modest Proposal through to the debates on
the New Woman at the turn of the twentieth century by way of Burke,
Wordsworth, Wollstonecraft, George Eliot, George Egerton, and
Thomas Hardy, among others. McDonagh demonstrates the haunting
persistence of the notion of child murder within British culture in
a volume that will be of interest to cultural and literary scholars
alike.
目錄：
List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
Note on references
List of abbreviations
Introduction: plots and protagonists
1. Child murder and commercial society in the early eighteenth
century
2. ''A squeeze in the neck for bastards'': the uncivilised spectacle
of child-killing in the 1770s and 1780s
3. 17891803: Martha Ray, the mob, and Malthus''s Mistress of the
Feast
4. ''Bright and countless everywhere'': the New Poor Law and the
politics of prolific reproduction in 1839
5. ''A nation of infanticides'': child murder and the national
forgetting in Adam Bede
6. Wragg''s daughters: child murder towards the fin de siècle
7. English babies and Irish changelings
Appendix: on the identity of ''Marcus''
Notes
Bibliography
Index.
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