What We Mourn by Lydia Murdoch PAPERBACK 9780813953823

University of Virginia Press

How a new culture of bereavement changed the relationship of the Victorian state to its most vulnerable subjects\n 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. \n 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\n\nWhat We Mourn\nChild Death and the Politics of Grief in Nineteenth-Century Britain\nFree UK delivery on this item.\n\nThis brand new item is available with free UK delivery using Royal Mail tracked se;