num_pages: 257
description: This book explores ideas of violent femininity across generic and disciplinary boundaries during the nineteenth century. It aims to highlight how medical, legal and literary narratives shared notions of the volatile nature of women. Mangham traces intersections between notorious legal trials, theories of female insanity, and sensation novels.
language: English
title: Violent Women and Sensation Fiction: Crime, Medicine and Victorian Popular Culture
titlecomplete: Violent Women and Sensation Fiction: Crime, Medicine and Victorian Popular Culture
genres: Gender, Nonfiction, Literary Criticism, History
ratings_count: 11
publisher: Palgrave Macmillan