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Framed : the new woman criminal in British culture at the Fin de Siècle / Elizabeth Carolyn Miller.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Miller, Elizabeth Carolyn, 1974-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Detective and mystery stories, English--History and criticism.
- Detective and mystery stories, English.
- English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
- English fiction.
- Female offenders in literature.
- Terrorism in literature.
- Consumption (Economics) in literature.
- Feminism and literature--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Feminism and literature.
- Women in popular culture.
- History.
- Detective and mystery films.
- Great Britain.
- Literature and society--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Literature and society.
- Detective and mystery films--Great Britain--History and criticism.
- Women in popular culture--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2008.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Framed uses fin de siecle British crime narrative to pose a highly interesting question: why do female criminal characters tend to be alluring and appealing while fictional male criminals of the era are unsympathetic or even grotesque? In this elegantly argued study, Elizabeth Carolyn Miller addresses this question, examining popular literary and cinematic culture from roughly 1880 to 1914 to shed light on an otherwise overlooked social and cultural type: the conspicuously glamorous New Woman criminal. In so doing, she breaks with the many Foucauldian studies of crime to emphasize the genuinely subversive aspects of these popular female figures. Drawing on a rich body of archival material, Miller argues that the New Woman Criminal exploited iconic elements of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century commodity culture, including cosmetics and clothing, to fashion an illicit identity that enabled her to subvert legal authority in both the public and the private spheres.
- Contents:
- Private and public eyes : Sherlock Holmes and the invisible woman
- Beautiful for ever! cosmetics, consumerism, L.T. Meade, and Madame Rachel
- The limits of the gaze : class, gender, and authority in early British cinema
- Dynamite, interrupted : gender in James's and Conrad's novels of failed terror
- "An invitation to dynamite" : female revolutionaries in late-Victorian dynamite narrative.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-272) and index.
- Includes filmography: pages 253.
- Description based on information from the publisher.
- ISBN:
- 9780472070442
- 9780472050444
- 0472070444
- 0472050443
- Publisher Number:
- 10.3998/dcbooks.5899811.0001.001
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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