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Recent Work on Harriet Martineau
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10867734 |
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| Authors | Deirdre David (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 47 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 87-94 |
| Publication date | 2004-10-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Victorian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0042-5222 • E-ISSN: 1527-2052 |
| Publisher | Indiana University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2979/vic.2004.47.1.87 |
| OpenAlex | W2004462066 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 1 |
In the last twenty-five years or so Harriet Martineau has emerged from the margins of Victorian writing to become the fertile subject of conferences, anthologies, and critical biography, her books on political economy, America, Eastern travel, and life in the sickroom (among many other topics) now nicely ensconced in the canon of Victorian prose. She is assigned in classes on women's writing, imperialism, and transatlantic studies, and her books on the Empire, history, military reform, and the Middle East can be had in expensive boxed sets. Dedicated industry, resolute independence, a democratic willingness to popularize for the general reading public abstract political and philosophical views-these are the hallmarks of Martineau's career, and she has herself become an industry, something she would probably
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| Highly cited | No |
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