Masculinity, crime and self-defence in Victorian literature
By: Emelyne Godfrey
Series: Crime files
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780230273450
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The garotting farce: armoured masculinity and its limits: 1851-67; title: Foreign crimes hit British shores; title: The ticket-of-leave man; title: Tooled up: the pedestrian's armoury; title: Anthony Trollope: aggression punished and rewarded: 1867-87; title: Threats from below and above; title: Lord Chiltern and Mr. Kennedy; title: Phineas redux; title: Physical flamboyance in the Sherlock Holmes canon: 1887-1914; title: Exotic enemies; title: Urban knights in the London streets; title: Foreign friends.