Domestic murder in nineteenth-century England : literary and cultural representations / / Bridget Walsh

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910465220703321
• Autore: Walsh Bridget <1964->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Farnham, England ; ; Burlington, Vermont : , : Ashgate, , 2014; ©2014
• ISBN: 1-317-14844-4; 1-4724-2104-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (194 p.)
• Disciplina: 820.9/355
• Soggetti: English literature - 19th century - History and criticism; Popular literature - Great Britain - History and criticism; Murder in literature; Family violence in literature; Social values in literature; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 'The Demon in the Dock': Domestic Murder in Street Literature and the Newspaper Press; 2 'The Theatre of His Deep Dyed Guilt': Domestic Murder and the Victorian Stage; 3 'Mixed Motives and Mixed Morality': The Newgate Novel Debate; 4 'Monsters of Affection': The Male Domestic Murderer and Models of Masculinity; 5 'Changed, indeed, but not transformed': The Fin de Siècle and the Female Domestic Murderer; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Examining novels, trial transcripts, medico-legal documents, broadsides, criminal and scientific writing, illustration and, notably, Victorian melodrama, Bridget Walsh focuses on the relationship between the domestic sphere, so central to Victorian values, and the desecration of that space by the act of murder. Her book tackles crucial questions related to Victorian ideas of nationhood, national health, inequality, newspaper coverage of murder, contested models of masculinity and the portrayal of the female domestic murderer at the ; fin de siècle.