Carte What We Mourn Lydia Murdoch

What We Mourn

Autor: Lydia Murdoch
Limbă: engleză
Legare: Carte broșată
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218.63 lei
How a new culture of bereavement changed the relationship of the Victorian state to its most vulnera...

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Limbă
engleză
Legare
Carte - Carte broșată
Publicat
2025
Pagini
282
EAN
9780813953823
ISBN
0813953820
Enbook ID
49500172
Greutate
390
Dimensiuni
152 x 229 x 25

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How a new culture of bereavement changed the relationship of the Victorian state to its most vulnerable subjects

When the Tory Member of Parliament Michael Sadler argued in 1832 for state intervention on behalf of Britain's dying child factory workers, he elicited smirks and ridicule from his Liberal adversaries--a response that would have been unimaginable by the century's end. What We Mourn traces the changing understandings of child death within British, imperial, and transatlantic contexts and reveals the importance of youth and emotion to constructions of the modern state.

As childhood took on new meanings over the course of the long nineteenth century, public mourning for the premature deaths of children emerged as a way of asserting and even redefining British rights and citizenship. Factory hands and abolitionists, sanitation reformers and suffragists democratized and politicized their grief as they called upon the state to recognize their lives as part of a new, reimagined political order. As Lydia Murdoch shows, carrying their own and others' private grief into the public sphere--with petitions and marches, public lectures and poetry--allowed marginalized members of society to assert their claim to rights. What We Mourn explores both the power and the limitations of a new politics founded on grief and the protection of child life.

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