Infanticide in English Literature 1800-1910



Infanticide in English Literature 1800-1910

The research problem to be studied

The research problem is based on discussing concerns regarding infanticide in English literature in the tenure of 1800-1910. Throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, British readers of rather diverse types of writings would have been hard put to bypass reading about infanticide. At one end of the spectrum, broadsheets and ballads notified often lurid tales of women infanticide of child-murder; at the other, medical practitioners and solicitors considered in new periodicals the expert trials they faced in relative to infanticide in English literature, for example the conclusion ...