Masculinity, crime and self-defence in Victorian literature
Godfrey, Emelyne.
Masculinity, crime and self-defence in Victorian literature duelling with danger / Emelyne Godfrey. - Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. - xii, 201 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. - Crime files . - Crime files series. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 160-193) and index.
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.
9780230273450 (alk. paper) 9781137308511 0230273459 (alk. paper)
2010034132
PR468.M38 / G63 2011
820.9/3521
Masculinity, crime and self-defence in Victorian literature duelling with danger / Emelyne Godfrey. - Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. - xii, 201 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. - Crime files . - Crime files series. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 160-193) and index.
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.
9780230273450 (alk. paper) 9781137308511 0230273459 (alk. paper)
2010034132
PR468.M38 / G63 2011
820.9/3521