Femininity, Crime and Self-Defence in Victorian Literature and Society [[electronic resource] ] : From Dagger-Fans to Suffragettes / / by E. Godfrey |
Autore | Godfrey E |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2012.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (207 p.) |
Disciplina | 820.93522 |
Collana | Crime Files |
Soggetto topico |
Fiction
Literature, Modern—19th century British literature Sociology Nineteenth-Century Literature British and Irish Literature Gender Studies |
ISBN |
1-283-86746-X
1-137-28456-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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 |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910786583403321 |
Godfrey E | ||
London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2012 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Masculinity, Crime and Self-Defence in Victorian Literature [[electronic resource] ] : Duelling with Danger / / by E. Godfrey |
Autore | Godfrey E |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2011.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (214 p.) |
Disciplina | 820.9/3521 |
Collana | Crime Files |
Soggetto topico |
Fiction
Literature, Modern—20th century British literature Theater—History Literature, Modern—19th century Sociology Twentieth-Century Literature British and Irish Literature Theatre History Nineteenth-Century Literature Gender Studies |
ISBN |
1-282-99856-0
9786612998560 0-230-29499-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 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. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910785694803321 |
Godfrey E | ||
London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2011 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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