03991nam 22008655 450 991078569480332120200919024139.01-282-99856-097866129985600-230-29499-510.1057/9780230294998(CKB)2670000000070114(EBL)652361(OCoLC)700707038(SSID)ssj0000471177(PQKBManifestationID)12124077(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000471177(PQKBWorkID)10417215(PQKB)10761302(SSID)ssj0001659425(PQKBManifestationID)16442457(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001659425(PQKBWorkID)14985231(PQKB)11742505(DE-He213)978-0-230-29499-8(MiAaPQ)EBC652361(EXLCZ)99267000000007011420151204d2011 u| 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrMasculinity, Crime and Self-Defence in Victorian Literature[electronic resource] Duelling with Danger /by E. Godfrey1st ed. 2011.London :Palgrave Macmillan UK :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2011.1 online resource (214 p.)Crime FilesDescription based upon print version of record.1-349-32395-0 0-230-27345-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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.Crime FilesFictionLiterature, Modern—20th centuryBritish literatureTheater—HistoryLiterature, Modern—19th centurySociologyFictionhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/825000Twentieth-Century Literaturehttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/822000British and Irish Literaturehttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/833000Theatre Historyhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/415010Nineteenth-Century Literaturehttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/821000Gender Studieshttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/X35000Fiction.Literature, Modern—20th century.British literature.Theater—History.Literature, Modern—19th century.Sociology.Fiction.Twentieth-Century Literature.British and Irish Literature.Theatre History.Nineteenth-Century Literature.Gender Studies.820.9/3521Godfrey Eauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1521726BOOK9910785694803321Masculinity, Crime and Self-Defence in Victorian Literature3761089UNINA