Reason vs Revelation: Feminism, Malthus, and the New Poor Law in Narratives by Harriet Martineau and Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna
My article examines the profoundly influential presence of eighteenth-century stadial or ‘four stages' theory in industrial fiction of the early Victorian period. Axiomatic within this Enlightenment theory was the assumption that the treatment of women was a reliable index to the civilized stat...
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| Language: | English |
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Open Library of Humanities
2006-04-01
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| Series: | 19 : Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century |
| Online Access: | http://www.19.bbk.ac.uk/articles/443 |