Writing British infanticide
Subtitle: child-murder, gender, and print, 1722-1859
By: edited by Jennifer Thorn.
Contributors: Thorn, Jennifer, 1959-
Publisher: University of Delaware Press; Associated University Presses
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Newark; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 292
Subjects: English prose literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism.; Infanticide in literature.; Children -- Crimes against -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.; Children -- Crimes against -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.; English prose literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.; English fiction -- History and criticism.; Infanticide -- Great Britain -- History.; Women murderers in literature.; Children in literature.; Sex role in literature.; Murder in literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-285) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Stories of child-murder, stories of print / Jennifer Thorn; title: Beyond "lewd women" and "wanton wenches" : infanticide and child-murder in the long eighteenth century / Dana Rabin; title: "Most revolting murder by a father" : the violent rhetoric of paternal child-murder in the Times (London), 1826-1849 / Melissa Valiska Gregory; title: "I would be a witness against my self" : infanticide and communion in colonial New England / Laura Henigman; title: Fractured narratives of infanticide in the crime and execution broadside in Britain, 1780-1850 / Miriam Jones; title: The gender dynamics of the infanticide prevention campaign in eighteenth-century England and Richardson's history of Sir Charles Grandison / Lisa Zunshine; title: "I wou'd not murder my child" : maternity and the necessity of infanticide in two novels by Daniel Defoe / Toni Bowers; title: Confession and profession : Adam Bede, infanticide, and the new coroner / Laura C. Berry; title: Whose story is this, and who may tell it? : medical evidence versus "common capacity" in the framing of the Elizabeth Canning Case / Judith Moore; title: Naturally bad, or dangerously good : Romantic-era narratives of murderous motherhood / Julie Kipp.