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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 drawn from economics,

philosophy, law, medicine as well as from literature, McDonagh

highlights the manifold ways in which child murder echoes and

reverberates in a variety of cultural debates and social practices.

She places literary works within social, political and cultural

contexts, including debates on luxury, penal reform campaigns,

slavery, the treatment of the poor, and birth control. She traces a

trajectory from Swift's A Modest Proposal through to the debates on

the New Woman at the turn of the twentieth century by way of Burke,

Wordsworth, Wollstonecraft, George Eliot, George Egerton, and

Thomas Hardy, among others. McDonagh demonstrates the haunting

persistence of the notion of child murder within British culture in

a volume that will be of interest to cultural and literary scholars

alike.

List of illustrations

Acknowledgements

Note on references

List of abbreviations

Introduction: plots and protagonists

1. Child murder and commercial society in the early eighteenth

century

2. 'A squeeze in the neck for bastards': the uncivilised spectacle

of child-killing in the 1770s and 1780s

3. 1789/1803: Martha Ray, the mob, and Malthus's Mistress of the

Feast

4. 'Bright and countless everywhere': the New Poor Law and the

politics of prolific reproduction in 1839

5. 'A nation of infanticides': child murder and the national

forgetting in Adam Bede

6. Wragg's daughters: child murder towards the fin de siècle

7. English babies and Irish changelings

Appendix: on the identity of 'Marcus'

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

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