03246nam 2200685 450 991046522070332120200520144314.01-317-14844-41-4724-2104-3(CKB)2560000000141692(EBL)1678756(SSID)ssj0001181335(PQKBManifestationID)12553045(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001181335(PQKBWorkID)11145320(PQKB)11262600(MiAaPQ)EBC1678756(MiAaPQ)EBC5293903(Au-PeEL)EBL1678756(CaPaEBR)ebr10861713(CaONFJC)MIL922529(OCoLC)877868227(Au-PeEL)EBL5293903(CaONFJC)MIL622023(EXLCZ)99256000000014169220140430h20142014 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrDomestic murder in nineteenth-century England literary and cultural representations /Bridget WalshFarnham, England ;Burlington, Vermont :Ashgate,2014.©20141 online resource (194 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-4724-2103-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.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; IndexExamining 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.English literature19th centuryHistory and criticismPopular literatureGreat BritainHistory and criticismMurder in literatureFamily violence in literatureSocial values in literatureElectronic books.English literatureHistory and criticism.Popular literatureHistory and criticism.Murder in literature.Family violence in literature.Social values in literature.820.9/355Walsh Bridget1964-855896MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910465220703321Domestic murder in nineteenth-century England1910954UNINA