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Femininity, Crime and Self-Defence in Victorian Literature and Society : From Dagger-Fans to Suffragettes / by E. Godfrey.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Godfrey, Emelyne.
- Series:
- Crime Files, 2947-8359
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fiction.
- Literature, Modern--19th century.
- Literature, Modern.
- European literature.
- Sex.
- Fiction Literature.
- Nineteenth-Century Literature.
- European Literature.
- Gender Studies.
- Local Subjects:
- Fiction Literature.
- Nineteenth-Century Literature.
- European Literature.
- Gender Studies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (207 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2012.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781283867467
- 128386746X
- 9781137284563
- 1137284560
- OCLC:
- 819423178
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