Masculinity, crime and self-defence in Victorian literature
Title:
Masculinity, crime and self-defence in Victorian literature
Author:
Godfrey, Emelyne.
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Publication Information:
New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Physical Description:
xii, 201 p. : ill.
Series:
Crime files
Crime files series.
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.
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