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Child Murder and British Culture, 1720-1900
Language: en
Pages: 308
Authors: Josephine McDonagh
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003-12-08 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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In this wide-ranging study, Josephine McDonagh examines the idea of child murder in British culture in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Analysing texts
A History of Infanticide in Britain, c. 1600 to the Present
Language: en
Pages: 389
Authors: A. Kilday
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-06-14 - Publisher: Springer

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The killing of new-born children is an intensely emotional and emotive subject. The hidden nature of this crime has made it an area incredibly difficult subject
Victorians Against the Gallows
Language: en
Pages: 580
Authors: James Gregory
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-11-30 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

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By the time that Queen Victoria ascended the throne in 1837, the list of crimes liable to attract the death penalty had effectively been reduced to murder. Yet,
Adam Bede
Language: en
Pages: 920
Authors: George Eliot
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-04-24 - Publisher: Penguin UK

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Carpenter Adam Bede is in love with the beautiful Hetty Sorrel, but unknown to him, he has a rival, in the local squire’s son Arthur Donnithorne. Hetty is soo
Time of Beauty, Time of Fear
Language: en
Pages: 265
Authors: James Holt McGavran
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-05-01 - Publisher: University of Iowa Press

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It is now two and a half centuries since Jean-Jacques Rousseau first wrote so evocatively of natural man in Social Contract and of experiential education in Emi