Women's Political Economy and the Popularization of Malthus in England, 1815-1835

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dc.contributor.advisorSheridan, George
dc.contributor.authorSimmerman, Christopher
dc.date.accessioned2020-09-24T17:20:53Z
dc.date.available2020-09-24T17:20:53Z
dc.date.issued2020-09-24
dc.description.abstractIn England during the early 19th century, women wrote popular texts of political economy. A major function of those texts was to popularize the thought of prominent political economists. This thesis compares the writings of four female popularizers—Maria Edgeworth, Jane Haldimand Marcet, Harriet Martineau, and Margracia Ryves Loudon—to those of the political economist Thomas Robert Malthus. Three subjects are considered: population, the Poor Laws, and the Corn Laws. This thesis argues that Edgeworth, Marcet, and Martineau distilled Malthus’ principle of population into didactic literature; that Marcet and Martineau popularized Malthus’ anti-Poor Law arguments while supplementing them with original contentions and later advocating for the reforms of the New Poor Law; and that Marcet, Martineau, and Loudon argued in favor of abolishing the Corn Laws in spite of Malthus’ protectionism. Female popularizers thus had an ambivalent relationship with Malthus’ political economy.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1794/25670
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Oregon
dc.rightsAll Rights Reserved.
dc.subjectclassical economicsen_US
dc.subjectintellectual historyen_US
dc.subjectknowledge circulationen_US
dc.subjectMalthusen_US
dc.subjectpolitical economyen_US
dc.subjectpopularizationen_US
dc.titleWomen's Political Economy and the Popularization of Malthus in England, 1815-1835
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation
thesis.degree.disciplineDepartment of History
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Oregon
thesis.degree.levelmasters
thesis.degree.nameM.A.

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