Kathryn Gleadle is one of the most interesting and scrupulous historians currently working in the fields of gender and politics in the nineteenth century. Borderline Citizens: Women, Gender and Political Culture in Britain, 1815-1867. Borderline Citizens complicates not only our current narratives of. While Gleadle’s argument is not shockingly new to specialists in the field, her broad and deep research and subtle interpretations make this book an important contribution. Women were, therefore, marginalized or “borderline” citizens. Rejecting both simplistic notions of women as rigidly confined to a domestic and apolitical sphere, and of women as emerging political subjects on a path to Whiggishly inevitable enfranchisement, Gleadle argues that many women were politically engaged, and that that reality was consistently problematic. Her most recent book, Borderline Citizens: Women, Gender and Political Culture in Britain, 1815-1867, explores the precise contours of middle-class and gentry women’s engagements in political cultures in nineteenth-century Britain. more Kathryn Gleadle is one of the most interesting and scrupulous historians currently working in the fields of gender and politics in the nineteenth century. Kathryn Gleadle is one of the most interesting and scrupulous historians currently working in the. By and large she has met it by delivering a book that will provoke much thought-as well as just provoke.
The nearest equivalent to this book is Philip Priestley’s Victorian Prison Lives: English Prison Biography, 1830–1914 (1985) and the two books pleasingly complement each other. At her best she writes with subtlety and flair, but at her devotions the language inevitably takes a turgid turn. She might nevertheless have done more justice to herself and to her subjects (and readers) had she managed more frequently to escape the Foucauldian cloisters and given freer rein to her own judgements: certainly Schwan has the necessary instinct and sensibility. I do not know of another work that ranges with such brio from street-sold broadsheets to Victorian and Modern literature and culture. more AUTUMN 2016 Schwan’s selection of cases and events and the range of literature-both factual and fictional-is impressive and the analysis is generally persuasive.
AUTUMN 2016 Schwan’s selection of cases and events and the range of literature-both factual and f.
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