LEADER 04497nam 22007331 450 001 9910787857503321 005 20200514202323.0 010 $a1-4742-0132-6 010 $a1-78225-369-6 024 7 $a10.5040/9781474201322 035 $a(CKB)2670000000546932 035 $a(EBL)1650711 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001217182 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11728859 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001217182 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11197571 035 $a(PQKB)10961004 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1751929 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1650711 035 $a(OCoLC)873947878 035 $a(UtOrBLW)bpp09257036 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1650711 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000546932 100 $a20140929d2014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aSex, crime and literature in Victorian England /$fIan Ward 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aOxford :$cHart Publishing,$d2014. 215 $a1 online resource (161 p.) 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a1-5099-0498-0 311 $a1-84946-294-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tAngels in the house --$tAt home with the Dombeys --$tThe disease of reading --$tPleasing and teaching --$tOne person in law --$tNewcome v. Lord Highgate --$tCarlyle v. Carlyle --$tOh reader! --$tThe sensational moment --$tFashionable crimes --$tMrs. Mellish's marriages --$tThe shame of Miss Braddon --$tThe precious quality of truthfulness --$tHardwicke's children --$tR v. Sorrel --$tThe lost and the saved --$tWalking the streets --$tThe murder of Nancy Sikes --$tContemplating Jenny --$tBecause men made the laws. 330 $a"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. 330 8 $a"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. 606 $aAdultery$zEngland$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aBigamy$zEngland$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aCrime in literature 606 $aEnglish literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aInfanticide$zEngland$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aProstitution$zEngland$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aWomen in literature 606 $2Law & society 615 0$aAdultery$xHistory 615 0$aBigamy$xHistory 615 0$aCrime in literature. 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aInfanticide$xHistory 615 0$aProstitution$xHistory 615 0$aWomen in literature. 676 $a820.9'3538'09034 700 $aWard$b Ian$f1963-$0241818 801 0$bUtOrBLW 801 1$bUtOrBLW 801 2$bUkLoBP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910787857503321 996 $aSex, crime and literature in Victorian England$93864864 997 $aUNINA