02880nam 2200685 a 450 991082594960332120200520144314.01-282-99856-097866129985600-230-29499-510.1057/9780230294998(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)99267000000007011420100816d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrMasculinity, crime and self-defence in Victorian literature /Emelyne Godfrey1st ed. 2011.New York Palgrave Macmillan20111 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 files series.English literature19th centuryHistory and criticismMasculinity in literatureCrime in literatureEnglish literatureHistory and criticism.Masculinity in literature.Crime in literature.820.9/3521Godfrey Emelyne1759737MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910825949603321Masculinity, crime and self-defence in Victorian literature4198382UNINA