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Book SynopsisHarriet Martineau: Authorship, Society and Empire is a new book of essays by distinguished US and UK scholars on this most influential and prolific of Victorian writers and thinkers. -- .
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
I. Authorship and Identity
1. Harriet Martineau, Woman of Letters
2. Harriet Martineau’s ‘Intellectual Nobility’: Gender, Genius, and Disability
3. ‘(Entre nous, please!)’: Harriet Martineau’s Correspondence
4. Self-presentation and Instability in Harriet Martineau’s Autobiography
5. ‘Socinian and Political-Economy Formulas’: Martineau the Unitarian
6. Provocative Agendas: Martineau’s Translation of Comte
II. Political Economy, Technology and Society
7. Domesticating Political Economy: Language, Gender, and Economics in the Illustrations of Political Economy
8. Feminism, Speculation and Agency in Harriet Martineau’s Illustrations of
Political Economy
9. ‘Secret Organisation of Trades’: Harriet Martineau and ‘Free Labour’ in Victorian Britain
10. Spending Sprees and Machine Accidents: Martineau and the Mystery of Improvidence
II. Empire, Race, Nation
11. ‘With the Practised Eye of a Deaf Person’: Martineau’s Travel Writing and the Construction of the Disabled Traveller
12. Slavery, Race, History: Harriet Martineau’s Ethnographic Imagination
13. Imperial Woman: Harriet Martineau, Geopolitics and the Romance of
Improvement
14.Harriet Martineau and India: On Not Writing Accusatory History
15. Writing a History, Writing a Nation: Harriet Martineau’s History of the Peace
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