Family fictions and family facts
Subtitle: Harriet Martineau, Adolphe Quetelet, and the population question in England, 1798-1859
By: Brian P. Cooper
Series: Routledge studies in the history of economics -- 54
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9780415150583; 9780203441855
Subjects: Martineau, Harriet, -- 1802-1876; Quetelet, Adolphe, -- 1796-1874; Family -- Economic aspects -- England -- History -- 19th century; Demography -- England -- Classification -- History -- 19th century; Family in literature; Population in literature; Malthusianism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-286) and index
Table of contents: title: Classification comes home to the family; title: Family and the domestication of passions; title: Family, the manners of the people, and political economy; title: Harriet Martineau's "embodied principles" of political economy : whose bodies, what principles?; title: What is to be deemed a family?; title: What is to be deemed a family?; title: However you define family