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Contested Liberalisms

Martineau, Dickens and the Victorian Press

Iain Crawford author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Edinburgh University Press

Published:31st Aug '21

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Focusing 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.

ISBN: 9781474453141

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336 pages