LEADER 02880nam 2200685 a 450 001 9910825949603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-99856-0 010 $a9786612998560 010 $a0-230-29499-5 024 7 $a10.1057/9780230294998 035 $a(CKB)2670000000070114 035 $a(EBL)652361 035 $a(OCoLC)700707038 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000471177 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12124077 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000471177 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10417215 035 $a(PQKB)10761302 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001659425 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16442457 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001659425 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)14985231 035 $a(PQKB)11742505 035 $a(DE-He213)978-0-230-29499-8 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC652361 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000070114 100 $a20100816d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aMasculinity, crime and self-defence in Victorian literature /$fEmelyne Godfrey 205 $a1st ed. 2011. 210 $aNew York $cPalgrave Macmillan$d2011 215 $a1 online resource (214 p.) 225 1 $aCrime files 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-349-32395-0 311 $a0-230-27345-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aThe 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. 330 $aNow in paperback, this book considers crime fighting from the perspective of the civilian city-goer, from the mid-Victorian garotting panics to 1914. It charts the shift from the use of body armour to the adoption of exotic martial arts through the works of popular playwrights and novelists, examining changing ideals of urban, middle-class heroism. 410 0$aCrime files series. 606 $aEnglish literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aMasculinity in literature 606 $aCrime in literature 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aMasculinity in literature. 615 0$aCrime in literature. 676 $a820.9/3521 700 $aGodfrey$b Emelyne$01759737 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910825949603321 996 $aMasculinity, crime and self-defence in Victorian literature$94198382 997 $aUNINA