Download or read book Contested Liberalisms written by Iain Crawford and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2010-10-08 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the importance of Martineau's contribution to the development of the early Victorian press, this text highlights the degree to which the public quarrel between her and Dickens in the mid-1850s represented larger fissures within nineteenth-century liberalism.