Untangling Concepts of Objectivity in Nineteenth-Century Social Reform
Harriet Martineau and Henry Mayhew Observe Urban Poverty
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4298145 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Evelyn L Forget (0000-0001-6169-995X, Community Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Manitoba, 750 Bannatyne Ave., Winnipeg MB R3E 0W3, Canada ([email protected]), corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 55 |
| Issue | S1 |
| Pages | 55-74 |
| Publication date | 2023-12-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | History of Political Economy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-2702 • E-ISSN: 1527-1919 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/00182702-10875002 |
| OpenAlex | W4385948781 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 28 |
This article examines emerging concepts of objectivity in the work of Harriet Martineau and Henry Mayhew. It focuses on Martineau's How to Observe Morals and Manners (1838) and Mayhew's London Labour and the London Poor (1861), documenting how ideas about objectivity appeared in journalism and popular writing by these two prolific nineteenth-century social commentators
Epistemology · Journalism · Media studies · Objectivity (philosophy · Political science · Politics · Poverty · Social reform · Social science · Sociology · Cultural History and Identity Formation · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · Law · Literature: history, themes, analysis · Philosophy
Harriet Martineau
Conversations on the Nature of Political Economy
Illustrations of Political Economy
How to Observe Morals and Manners
London Labour and the London Poor
Social surveillance and subjectification
Harriet Martineau and the Birth of Disciplines
From Aperspectival Objectivity to Strong Objectivity
Objectivity and the Escape from Perspective
Identity, Language, and Resistance in the Making of the Victorian “Criminal Class”
The Boys are Pickpockets, and the Girl is a Prostitute
After objectivity
Fiction and Ethnography
Learning from Henry Mayhew
Adam Smith and the Theatricality of Moral Sentiments
| Highly cited | No |
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