Masculinity, Crime and Self-Defence in Victorian Literature.

Masculinity, Crime and Self-Defence in Victorian Literature.

This book considers crime fighting from the perspective of the civilian city-goer, from the mid-Victorian garotting panics to 1914. It charts the shift from the use of 'body armour' to the adoption of exotic martial arts through the works of popular playwrights and novelists, examining cha...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Godfrey, Dr Emelyne
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Series:Crime files
Subjects:
1800-1899
English literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Masculinity in literature.
Crime in literature.
Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers.
Literary studies: from c 1900 -.
Plays, playscripts.
Literature.
Crime in literature
English literature
Masculinity in literature
Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers > 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999.
Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 > 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999.
Plays, playscripts > 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Note on the Text and Abbreviations; Part I: The Garotting Farce: Armoured Masculinity and its Limits: 1851-67; 1 Foreign Crimes Hit British Shores; 2 The Ticket-of-Leave Man; 3 Tooled Up: The Pedestrian's Armoury; Part II: Anthony Trollope: Aggression Punished and Rewarded: 1867-87; 4 Threats from Above and Below; 5 Lord Chiltern and Mr Kennedy; 6 Phineas Redux; Part III: Physical Flamboyance in the Holmes Canon: 1887-1914; 7 Exotic Enemies; 8 Urban Knights in the London Streets; 9 Foreign Friends; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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