Josephine McDonagh. Child Murder and British Culture 1720-1900.(Book Review)

Studies in Romanticism | December 22, 2004| | Copyright

Josephine McDonagh. Child Murder and British Culture 1720-1900. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. 278. $75.00.

Josephine McDonagh has produced a definitive account of the trope of child murder as a mechanism for dealing with the evolution of modernity from early commercial capitalism to post-colonialism. Child Murder and British Culture 1720-1900 is not only astonishingly comprehensive, but rich in literary, cultural, legal, and scientific detail, all presented with remarkable economy and clarity. It establishes a crucial perspective on a phenomenon ...

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