Masculinity, crime and self-defence in Victorian literature duelling with danger /
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| Natura: | Libro |
| Lingua: | English |
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Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2013.
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| Serie: | Crime files series.
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Sommario:
- 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 above and below
- 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.