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Autore |
Godfrey E |
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Titolo |
Femininity, Crime and Self-Defence in Victorian Literature and Society [[electronic resource] ] : From Dagger-Fans to Suffragettes / / by E. Godfrey |
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London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2012 |
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ISBN |
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1-283-86746-X |
1-137-28456-0 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed. 2012.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (207 p.) |
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Collana |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Fiction |
Literature, Modern—19th century |
British literature |
Sociology |
Nineteenth-Century Literature |
British and Irish 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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Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Note on the Text; Abbreviations; Introduction; Hot-House Flowers; Safety in a 'Dangerous Novel'; Introducing the Texts; 1 On the Street; 'No Males at Men to Stare'?; The Lady is a Tramp; 2 Danger en Route; 'The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist'; Panic on the Line; 3 Behind Closed Doors in Mona Caird's The Wing of Azrael (1889); Perils of the 'Marriage Market'; 'Reading Nature's Plainest Danger-Signals'; Perfect Gentlemen?; Murder; 4 Elizabeth Robins's The Convert; Looking After Herself; War with Mr Wells; Kicking the Suffrage Football |
Hatpins and Dog-Whips5 The Last Heroine Left?; Exercising Freedom; Lightning Throws and Waltzes with Watts; Potatoes, Policemen and Mrs Garrud; 6 Elizabeth Robins and the 'White Slave Trade' Panic; Following Threads; Shutting In; 'Houses of Hell'; The Girl with the Lamp; 7 Read My Lips; Richard Marsh's World of Crime; The Plate-Glass Partition; |
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