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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785694803321

Autore

Godfrey E

Titolo

Masculinity, Crime and Self-Defence in Victorian Literature [[electronic resource] ] : Duelling with Danger / / by E. Godfrey

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2011

ISBN

1-282-99856-0

9786612998560

0-230-29499-5

Edizione

[1st ed. 2011.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (214 p.)

Collana

Crime Files

Disciplina

820.9/3521

Soggetti

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

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

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.

Sommario/riassunto

Now in paperback, 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 changing ideals of urban, middle-class heroism.