Framed : The New Woman Criminal in British Culture at the Fin de Siecle.
by
Miller, Elizabeth Carolyn.
Title
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Framed : The New Woman Criminal in British Culture at the Fin de Siecle.
Author
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Miller, Elizabeth Carolyn.
ISBN
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9780472024469
Personal Author
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Miller, Elizabeth Carolyn.
Physical Description
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1 online resource (297 pages)
Contents
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Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- PART ONE DETECTIVE SERIES -- ONE Private and Public Eyes - Sherlock Holmes and the Invisible Woman -- TWO Beautiful For Ever! - Cosmetics, Consumerism, L. T. Meade, and Madame Rachel -- PART TWO CRIME FILM -- THREE The Limits of the Gaze - Class, Gender, and Authority in Early British Cinema -- PART THREE DYNAMITE NARRATIVE -- FOUR Dynamite, Interrupted - Gender in James's and Conrad's Novels of Failed Terror -- FIVE "An Invitation to Dynamite" - Female Revolutionaries in Late-Victorian Dynamite Narrative -- Afterword -- Notes -- Films Cited -- Works Cited -- Index.
Abstract
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By introducing us to the New Woman Criminal, Framed offers a profoundly different view of the fin de siècle British crime narrative.
Local Note
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
Subject Term
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Consumption (Economics) in literature.
Detective and mystery stories, English -- History and criticism.
English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
Female offenders in literature.
Feminism and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
Terrorism in literature.
Genre
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Electronic books.
Electronic Access
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Library | Material Type | Item Barcode | Shelf Number | Status |
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IYTE Library | E-Book | 1329118-1001 | PR878 | Ebrary E-Books |