Masculinity, Crime and Self-Defence in V
β Emelyne Godfrey (auth.)
π Library
π
2011
π Palgrave Macmillan UK
π English
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Femininity, Crime and Self-Defence in Victorian Literature and Society: From Dagger-Fans to Suffragettes
β Scribed by Emelyne Godfrey (auth.)
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Year
- 2012
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 201
- Series
- Crime Files Series
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Table of Contents
Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Introduction....Pages 1-11
Front Matter....Pages 13-13
On the Street....Pages 15-25
Danger en Route....Pages 26-32
Behind Closed Doors in Mona Cairdβs The Wing of Azrael (1889)....Pages 33-63
Front Matter....Pages 65-65
Elizabeth Robinsβs The Convert....Pages 67-85
The Last Heroine Left?....Pages 86-106
Front Matter....Pages 107-107
Elizabeth Robins and the βWhite Slave Tradeβ Panic....Pages 109-131
Read My Lips....Pages 132-155
Conclusion....Pages 156-157
Back Matter....Pages 158-192
β¦ Subjects
Fiction; Nineteenth-Century Literature; British and Irish Literature; Gender Studies
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