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Victorian murderesses / by Ayşe Naz Bulamur.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bulamur, Ayşe Naz, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
- English fiction.
- Women murderers in literature--19th century--History and criticism.
- Women murderers in literature.
- Women--History--19th century.
- Women.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (186 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016.
- Summary:
- Victorian Murderesses investigates the politics of female violence in Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles (1891), George Eliot's Adam Bede (1859), Mary Braddon's Lady Audley's Secret (1862), and Florence Marryat's The Blood of the Vampire (1897). The controversial figure of the murderess in these four novels challenges the assumption that women are essentially nurturing and passive and that violence and aggression are exclusively male traits. By focusing on the representations of murder committed by women, this book demonstrates how legal and even medical discourses endorsed Victorian dom
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 17, 2016).
- ISBN:
- 1-4438-8867-2
- OCLC:
- 1162302873
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