Harriet Martineau
8 Dec, 2016
300 Social sciences, sociology and anthropology
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Harriet Martineau who, from a non-conformist background in Norwich, became one of the best known writers in the C19th. She had a wide range of interests and used a new, sociological method to observe the world around her, from religion in Egypt to slavery in America and the rights of women everywhere. She popularised writing about economics for those outside the elite and, for her own popularity, was invited to the coronation of Queen Victoria, one of her readers.
Guests
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Valerie Sanders No other episodes
Professor of English at the University of Hull - Karen O'Brien
16 episodes
Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford -
Ella Dzelzainis No other episodes
Lecturer in 19th Century Literature at Newcastle University
Reading list
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Intellectual Women and Victorian Patriarchy: Harriet Martineau, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George Eliot
Deirdre David (Palgrave Macmillan, 1987) Google Books → -
Harriet Martineau: Authorship, Society and Empire
Ella Dzelzainis and Cora Kaplan (eds.) (Manchester University Press, 2010) Google Books → -
Literary Celebrity, Gender and Victorian Authorship, 1850-1914
Alexis Easley (University of Delaware, 2011) Google Books → -
Harriet Martineau: Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives
Michael R. Hill and Susan Hoecker-Drysdale (eds) (Routledge, 2003) Google Books → -
Harriet Martineau and the Poetics of Moralism
Shelagh Hunter (Scolar Press, 1996) -
Harriet Martineau, Victorian Imperialism and the Civilizing Mission
Deborah A. Logan (Routledge, 2009) Google Books → -
The Hour and the Woman: Harriet Martineau's "Somewhat Remarkable" Life
Deborah Anna Logan (Northern Illinois University Press, 2002) Google Books → -
Autobiography
Harriet Martineau (ed. Linda H. Peterson) (Broadview Press, 2006) Google Books → -
Deerbrook: A Novel
Harriet Martineau (ed. Valerie Sanders) (Penguin Classics, 2004) Google Books → -
Illustrations of Political Economy: Selected Tales
Harriet Martineau (ed. Deborah Logan) (Broadview Press, 2004) Google Books → -
Women and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Karen O'Brien (Cambridge University Press, 2009) Google Books → -
Reason over Passion: Harriet Martineau and the Victorian Novel
Valerie Sanders (Palgrave Macmillan, 1986) Google Books → -
Harriet Martineau and the Birth of Disciplines: Nineteenth-century Intellectual Powerhouse
Valerie Sanders and Gaby Weiner (eds.) (Routledge, 2016) Google Books → -
Harriet Martineau: A Radical Victorian
R. K. Webb (Columbia University Press, 1960) Google Books →
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