Femininity, Crime and Self-Defence in Victorian Literature and Society [[electronic resource] ] : From Dagger-Fans to Suffragettes / / by E. Godfrey
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Godfrey E
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| Titolo: |
Femininity, Crime and Self-Defence in Victorian Literature and Society [[electronic resource] ] : From Dagger-Fans to Suffragettes / / by E. Godfrey
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| Pubblicazione: | London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2012 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. 2012. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (207 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 820.93522 |
| Soggetto topico: | Fiction |
| Literature, Modern—19th century | |
| British literature | |
| Sociology | |
| Nineteenth-Century Literature | |
| British and Irish Literature | |
| Gender Studies | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Note on the Text; Abbreviations; Introduction; Hot-House Flowers; Safety in a 'Dangerous Novel'; Introducing the Texts; 1 On the Street; 'No Males at Men to Stare'?; The Lady is a Tramp; 2 Danger en Route; 'The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist'; Panic on the Line; 3 Behind Closed Doors in Mona Caird's The Wing of Azrael (1889); Perils of the 'Marriage Market'; 'Reading Nature's Plainest Danger-Signals'; Perfect Gentlemen?; Murder; 4 Elizabeth Robins's The Convert; Looking After Herself; War with Mr Wells; Kicking the Suffrage Football |
| Hatpins and Dog-Whips5 The Last Heroine Left?; Exercising Freedom; Lightning Throws and Waltzes with Watts; Potatoes, Policemen and Mrs Garrud; 6 Elizabeth Robins and the 'White Slave Trade' Panic; Following Threads; Shutting In; 'Houses of Hell'; The Girl with the Lamp; 7 Read My Lips; Richard Marsh's World of Crime; The Plate-Glass Partition; Cutting Hair; Handbags at Dawn; The Missing Jewel Case; The Ripper and his Shadow; Trapped; Death by Chocolate; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | This exploration into the development of women's self-defence from 1850 to 1914 features major writers, including H.G. Wells, Elizabeth Robins and Richard Marsh, and encompasses an unusually wide-ranging number of subjects from hatpin crimes to the development of martial arts for women. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Femininity, Crime and Self-Defence in Victorian Literature and Society |
| ISBN: | 1-283-86746-X |
| 1-137-28456-0 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910786583403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Crime Files