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Autore |
Godfrey E |
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Titolo |
Masculinity, Crime and Self-Defence in Victorian Literature [[electronic resource] ] : Duelling with Danger / / by E. Godfrey |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2011 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-99856-0 |
9786612998560 |
0-230-29499-5 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed. 2011.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (214 p.) |
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Collana |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Fiction |
Literature, Modern—20th century |
British literature |
Theater—History |
Literature, Modern—19th century |
Sociology |
Twentieth-Century Literature |
British and Irish Literature |
Theatre History |
Nineteenth-Century Literature |
Gender Studies |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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The garotting farce : armoured masculinity and its limits : 1851-67 -- Foreign crimes hit British shores -- The ticket-of-leave man -- Tooled up : the pedestrian's armoury -- Anthony Trollope : aggression punished and rewarded : 1867-87 -- Threats from below and above -- Lord Chiltern and Mr. Kennedy -- Phineas redux -- Physical flamboyance in the Sherlock Holmes canon : 1887-1914 -- Exotic enemies -- Urban knights in the London streets -- Foreign friends. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Now in paperback, this book considers crime fighting from the perspective of the civilian city-goer, from the mid-Victorian garotting |
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