Masculinity, Crime and Self-Defence in Victorian Literature : Duelling with Danger / by E. Godfrey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Godfrey, Emelyne.

Series:

Crime Files, 2947-8359

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fiction.

Literature, Modern--20th century.

Literature, Modern.

European literature.

Theater--History.

Theater.

Literature, Modern--19th century.

Sex.

Fiction Literature.

Twentieth-Century Literature.

European Literature.

Theatre History.

Nineteenth-Century Literature.

Gender Studies.

Local Subjects:

Fiction Literature.

Twentieth-Century Literature.

European Literature.

Theatre History.

Nineteenth-Century Literature.

Gender Studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (214 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2011.

Place of Publication:

London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Now 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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612998560

9781282998568

1282998560

9780230294998

0230294995

OCLC:

700707038