Victorian crime, madness and sensation / edited by Andrew Maunder, Grace Moore.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Maunder, Andrew.

Moore, Grace, 1974-

Series:

Nineteenth century (Aldershot, England)

The nineteenth century series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.

English fiction.

Crime in literature.

Crime--Great Britain--History--19th century--Historiography.

Crime.

English prose literature--19th century--History and criticism.

English prose literature.

Detective and mystery stories, English--History and criticism.

Detective and mystery stories, English.

Sensationalism in literature.

Mentally ill in literature.

Criminals in literature.

History.

Historiography.

Social conditions.

Great Britain--Social conditions--19th century--Historiography.

Great Britain.

Great Britain--History--Victoria, 1837-1901--Historiography.

Physical Description:

xi, 259 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2004]

Contents:

Regicide and reginamania : G.W.M. Reynolds and the mysteries of London / John Plunkett

The making of a master criminal : the 'chief of the thugs' in Victorian writings on crime / Máire ní Fhlathúin

Black markets and cadaverous pies : the corpse, urban trade and industrial consumption in The penny blood / Sally Powell

"Stepchildren of nature" : East Lynne and the spectre of female degeneracy, 1860-1861 / Andrew Maunder

Murder, gender, and popular fiction by women in the 1860s : Braddon, Oliphant, Yonge / June Sturrock

Anatomy of a "nine days' wonder" : sensational journalism in the decade of sensation / Dallas Liddle

The inside story : crime, convicts and careers for women / Barbara Onslow

"The truth of midnight" and "the truth of noonday" : sensation and madness in James Thomson's The city of dreadful night / Dafydd Moore

Puffed papers and broken promises : white-collar crime and literary justice in the way we live now / Karen Odden

Something to Hyde : the "strange preference" of Henry Jekyll" / Grace Moore

The novelization of the Dreyfus Affair : femininity and sensation in fin-de-siècle France / Christopher E. Forth

"Furious passions of the Celtic race" : Ireland, madness and Wilkie Collins's Blind love / Maria K. Bachman

Time's hand : fingerprints, empire, and Victorian narratives of crime / Gita Panjabi Trelease

Vamping the children : the bloofer lady, the London minotaur and child-victimization in late-nineteenth-century England / Leslie Ann Minot

Ballad of a demon barber : the criminal career of George Chapman / Nicholas Freeman.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [237]-247) and index.

ISBN:

0754640604

OCLC:

54500231