Masculinity, Crime and Self-Defence in Victorian Literature Duelling with Danger

Title:

ISBN:

9780230294998

Personal Author:

Godfrey, E. author.

Edition:

1st ed. 2011.

Publication Information New:

London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

Physical Description:

XII, 201 p. online resource.

Series:

Crime Files,

Abstract:

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.

Subject Term:

Fiction.

Literature, Modern -- 20th century.

European literature.

Theater -- History.

Literature, Modern -- 19th century.

Sex.

Fiction Literature.

Twentieth-Century Literature.

Theatre History.

Nineteenth-Century Literature.

Gender Studies.