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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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The Garotting Farce: Armoured Masculinity and its Limits: 1851–67
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Front Matter
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Anthony Trollope: Aggression Punished and Rewarded: 1867–87
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Front Matter
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Physical Flamboyance in the Holmes Canon: 1887–1914
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Back Matter
About this book
Reviews
'In particular, the first and third parts, dealing respectively with the mid-19th century garotting (mugging) panics and the extraordinary civilian weaponry developed in response, and with Bartitsu and similar developments during the early Edwardian era, set new academic benchmarks for these subjects. Very strongly recommended!'
- Tony Wolf, Bartitsu Forum
'While this book is intended for an academic readership, its clear and direct style make it accessible to anyone with an interest in the Victorian era. The points it makes, moreover, have a broader resonance. As much as the anxieties of the Victorian era may seem irrational now, we live in an age when the media promotes the fear of knife-armed teenagers, dangerous dogs and violent drug addicts. As a reminder of Victorian panics and the responses they provoked this work is a timely offering.'
- Jacob Middleton, History Today
'Masculinity, Crime and Self-Defence in Victorian Literature is the newest addition to the Palgrave Macmillan 'Crime Files' series. While it might be expected that crime and self-defence would be linked, this given is not usually - or perhaps has not previously been - critically studied in depth. Emelyne Godfrey's book innovatively addresses this lack. Godfrey contextualises self-defence in terms of print culture, history, politics, laws, cultural attitudes and responses to crime and violence, fashion history and gender relations (specifically focusing on contrasting visions of masculinity). These investigations are illustrated with interesting pictures and figures... This informative book is thoroughly recommended for anyone who has interest in gender studies, Victorian fiction and crime fiction.'
- Routledge ABES, June 2011
'Masculinity, Crime and Self-Defence in Victorian Literature should be commended for gathering together and exploring nineteenth-century cultural phenomena about the intriguing topic of self-defence and for contributing to a lively scholarly field concerned with the interrelations of masculinity and class in that period.'
- Matthew Ingleby, TLS
About the author
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Masculinity, Crime and Self-Defence in Victorian Literature
Book Subtitle: Duelling with Danger
Authors: Emelyne Godfrey
Series Title: Crime Files
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230294998
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-27345-0Published: 03 December 2010
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-32395-1Published: 01 January 2011
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-29499-8Published: 03 December 2010
Series ISSN: 2947-8340
Series E-ISSN: 2947-8359
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 201
Topics: Fiction, Twentieth-Century Literature, British and Irish Literature, Theatre History, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Gender Studies