04536nam 22007451 450 991080893930332120200514202323.01-4742-0132-61-78225-369-610.5040/9781474201322(CKB)2670000000546932(EBL)1650711(SSID)ssj0001217182(PQKBManifestationID)11728859(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001217182(PQKBWorkID)11197571(PQKB)10961004(MiAaPQ)EBC1751929(MiAaPQ)EBC1650711(OCoLC)873947878(UtOrBLW)bpp09257036(Au-PeEL)EBL1650711(UtOrBLW)BP9781474201322BC(EXLCZ)99267000000054693220140929d2014 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrSex, crime and literature in Victorian England /Ian Ward1st ed.Oxford :Hart Publishing,2014.1 online resource (161 p.)Includes index.1-5099-0498-0 1-84946-294-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.Angels in the house --At home with the Dombeys --The disease of reading --Pleasing and teaching --One person in law --Newcome v. Lord Highgate --Carlyle v. Carlyle --Oh reader! --The sensational moment --Fashionable crimes --Mrs. Mellish's marriages --The shame of Miss Braddon --The precious quality of truthfulness --Hardwicke's children --R v. Sorrel --The lost and the saved --Walking the streets --The murder of Nancy Sikes --Contemplating Jenny --Because men made the laws."The Victorians worried about many things, prominent among their worries being the 'condition' of England and the 'question' of its women. Sex, Crime and Literature in Victorian England revisits these particular anxieties, concentrating more closely upon four 'crimes' which generated special concern amongst contemporaries: adultery, bigamy, infanticide, and prostitution. Each engaged with questions of sexuality and its regulation - as well as the legal, moral, and cultural concerns - which attracted the considerable interest, not just of lawyers and parliamentarians, but also novelists and poets, and perhaps most importantly, those who, in ever-larger numbers, liked to pass their leisure hours reading about sex and crime. Alongside statutes such as the 1857 Matrimonial Causes Act and the 1864 Contagious Diseases Act, the book contemplates those texts which shaped Victorian attitudes towards England's 'condition' and the 'question' of its women - the novels of Dickens, Thackeray, and Eliot; the works of sensationalists, such as Ellen Wood and Mary Braddon; and the poetry of Gabriel and Christina Rossetti. Sex, Crime and Literature in Victorian England is a richly contextual commentary on a critical period in the evolution of modern legal and cultural attitudes to the relation of crime, sexuality, and the family. It is an important study for all those interested in law and literature, legal history, and criminology"--Bloomsbury Publishing."An exploration of the texts which shaped Victorian attitudes towards the 'condition' of England and the 'question' of its women. It offers a richly contextual commentary on a critical period in the evolution of modern legal and cultural attitudes to the relation of crime, sexuality and the family."--Bloomsbury Publishing.AdulteryEnglandHistory19th centuryBigamyEnglandHistory19th centuryCrime in literatureEnglish literature19th centuryHistory and criticismInfanticideEnglandHistory19th centuryProstitutionEnglandHistory19th centuryWomen in literatureLaw & societyAdulteryHistoryBigamyHistoryCrime in literature.English literatureHistory and criticism.InfanticideHistoryProstitutionHistoryWomen in literature.820.9'3538'09034Ward Ian1963-241818UtOrBLWUtOrBLWUkLoBPBOOK9910808939303321Sex, crime and literature in Victorian England3955021UNINA