Masculinity, Crime and Self-Defence in Victorian Literature [electronic resource] : Duelling with Danger /
Godfrey, E.author.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references 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 below and above -- 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.
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.
Fiction.
Literature, Modern—20th century.
British literature.
Theater—History.
Literature, Modern—19th century.
Sociology.
Fiction.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
British and Irish Literature.
Theatre History.
Nineteenth-Century Literature.
Gender Studies.