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Masculinity, crime and self-defence in Victorian literature duelling with danger / Emelyne Godfrey.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Crime files seriesPublication details: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.Description: xii, 201 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780230273450 (alk. paper)
  • 9781137308511
  • 0230273459 (alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 820.9/3521 22
LOC classification:
  • PR468.M38 G63 2011
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 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.
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Book Book Ayesha Abed Library General Stacks Ayesha Abed Library General Stacks 820.93521 GOD (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 3010027784
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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.

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