Masculinity, Crime and Self-Defence in Victorian Literature

✍ Scribed by Emelyne Godfrey (auth.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 209
• Series: Crime Files Series
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Now in paperback, this book considers crime fighting from the perspective of the civilian city-goer, from the mid-Victorian garotting panics to 1914. It charts the shift from the use of body armour to the adoption of exotic martial arts through the works of popular playwrights and novelists, examining changing ideals of urban, middle-class heroism.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Introduction....Pages 1-16
Front Matter....Pages 17-17
Foreign Crimes Hit British Shores....Pages 19-27
The Ticket-of-Leave Man....Pages 28-40
Tooled Up: The Pedestrian’s Armoury....Pages 41-57
Front Matter....Pages 59-59
Threats from Above and Below....Pages 61-76
Lord Chiltern and Mr Kennedy....Pages 77-93
Phineas Redux....Pages 94-111
Front Matter....Pages 113-113
Exotic Enemies....Pages 115-127
Urban Knights in the London Streets....Pages 128-146
Foreign Friends....Pages 147-159
Back Matter....Pages 160-201

✦ Subjects

Fiction;Twentieth-Century Literature;British and Irish Literature;Theatre History;Nineteenth-Century Literature;Gender Studies