Illustrations of Political Economy: Selected TalesBroadview Press, 2004/10/21 - 439 ページ Published in 1832, Illustrations of Political Economy established Harriet Martineau as both a successful and controversial author and a pioneer of nineteenth-century “social problem” writing. This widely read series of didactic stories popularized political economy, making it accessible to audiences by vividly dramatizing issues such as overpopulation and labour strikes. Illustrations of Political Economy marks a pivotal moment in which literature and politics came together, laying the foundation for the realism and social commentary of later Victorian novels. This Broadview edition contains a critical introduction and a rich selection of historical documents, including contemporary reviews of Illustrations and writings on population growth, factory conditions, and working-class life. |
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A Brief Chronology | 51 |
A Manchester Strike | 137 |
Cousin Marshall | 217 |
Sowers not Reapers | 295 |
Titles and themes of the complete Illustrations | 383 |
Reviews of Illustrations of Political Economy | 413 |
William Maginn Frasers Magazine November 1832 | 420 |
Edward Bulwer Lytton The New Monthly Magazine and Literary | 427 |
Further Reading | 433 |
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422 ページ - Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we : come on, let us deal wisely with them ; lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war, they join also unto our enemies, and fight against us, and so get them up out of the land.
247 ページ - ... a convenient stock of flax hemp wool thread iron and other necessary ware and stuff to set the poor on work: and also competent sums of money for and towards the necessary relief of the lame impotent old blind and such other among them being poor and not able to work...
247 ページ - ... for setting to work the children of all such whose parents shall not by the said churchwardens and overseers, or the greater part of them, be thought able to keep and maintain their children ; and also for setting to work all such persons, married or unmarried, having no means to maintain them, and use no ordinary and daily trade of life to get their living by...
387 ページ - The labouring poor, to use a vulgar expression, seem always to live from hand to mouth. Their present wants employ their whole attention; and they seldom think of the future. Even when they have an opportunity of saving, they seldom exercise it ; but all that they earn beyond their present necessities goes, generally speaking, to the ale-house. The poor-laws...
387 ページ - ... to have allowed them to save enough for their support till they could find some other channel for their industry. A man who might not be deterred from going to the ale-house from the consideration that on his death, or sickness, he should leave his wife and family upon the parish might yet hesitate in thus dissipating his earnings if he were assured that, in either of these cases, his family must starve or be left to the support of casual bounty.
389 ページ - Money as they shall think fit) a convenient Stock of Flax, Hemp, Wool, Thread, Iron, and other necessary Ware and Stuff, to set the Poor on Work: And also competent Sums of Money for and towards the necessary Relief of the Lame, Impotent, Old, Blind, and such other among them being Poor, and not able to work, and also for...
34 ページ - Authorship has never been with me a matter of choice. I have not done it for amusement, or for money, or for fame, or for any reason but because I could not help it. Things were pressing to be said ; and there was more or less evidence that I was the person to say them.
396 ページ - Instructed in the fatal secret of subsisting on what is barely necessary to life yielding partly to necessity, and partly to example - the labouring classes have ceased to entertain a laudable pride in furnishing their houses. and in multiplying the decent comforts which minister to happiness.
422 ページ - There is, we admit, much which it is impossible not to admire in Miss Martineau's productions — the praiseworthy intention and benevolent spirit in which they are written, — and the varied knowledge of nature and society, the acute discrimination of character, and remarkable power of entering into, and describing the feelings of the poorer classes, which several of her little narratives evince.