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Illustrations of Political Economy, Vol. IV (in 9 Volumes)

Illustrations of Political Economy, Vol. IV (in 9 Volumes)

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General Political Science

ISBN10: 1605208701
ISBN13: 9781605208701
Publisher: Cosimo Classics
Published: Oct 1 2009
Pages: 414
Weight: 0.99
Height: 0.92 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Between 1832 and 1834, Harriet Martineau published a series of 24 short stories meant to illustrate the social and political problems arising from England's free-market economy: overpopulation, strife between workers and factory owners, the hardships of working-class life, and more. Though considered politically extreme by some, the series was wildly successful with readers, and went on to inform the later fiction of socially conscious authors including Charles Dickens and Elizabeth Gaskell. It was, we see now, a banner moment in this history of Victorian literature, when politics began to inform fiction. Martineau's writings-often difficult to find in print and here presented in beautiful new editions-are essential reading for students of the 19th-century English novel. Volume IV of Illustrations of Political Economy features the tales: - Homes Abroad - For Each and For All - French Wines and Politics Pioneering English writer and feminist HARRIET MARTINEAU (1802-1876) has been called the first female sociologist and the first female journalist in England. She is also the author of Society in America (1837) and How to Observe Morals and Manners (1838).

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