Title: VALERIE SANDERS AND GABY WEINER (eds). Harriet Martineau and the Birth of the Disciplines: Nineteenth-Century Intellectual Powerhouse.
Abstract: In the immediate aftermath of the women’s marches held in Washington, DC, and around the world in mid-January, twitter lit up with photographs from a 1908 suffragette march in London. Some demonstrators at this large march carried banners of their women writer-heroes with them; indeed, one photograph taken by the pioneering photo-journalist Christina Broom shows banners for Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, and, lurking a bit further in the cloudy background, Harriet Martineau. The positioning is apt. While Harriet Martineau has never been revered as influential in the way of Austen and Brontë, neither has she been lost to history, most especially women’s history. Harriet Martineau has never needed the kind of recovery work that has enabled obscure women writers from the period to be read by scholars today. Yet neither has she been fully integrated into our histories; her fit has been difficult to establish, her value and claims to canonicity questioned, her contributions understood in isolation to one another.
Publication Year: 2017
Publication Date: 2017-02-15
Language: en
Type: article
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