Victorian crime, madness and sensation
By: [edited by] Andrew Maunder, Grace Moore.
Contributors: Maunder, Andrew.; Moore, Grace, 1974-
Series: The nineteenth century series; Nineteenth century (Aldershot, England)
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hants, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 259
Subjects: English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.; Crime in literature.; Crime -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century -- Historiography.; English prose literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.; Detective and mystery stories, English -- History and criticism.; Sensationalism in literature.; Mentally ill in literature.; Criminals in literature.; Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 19th century -- Historiography.; Great Britain -- History -- Victoria, 1837-1901 -- Historiography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-247) and index.
Table of contents: title: Regicide and reginamania :  G.W.M. Reynolds and the mysteries of London / John Plunkett; title: The making of a master criminal : the 'chief of the thugs' in Victorian writings on crime / Máire ní Fhlathúin; title: Black markets and cadaverous pies : the corpse, urban trade and industrial consumption in The penny blood / Sally Powell; title: "Stepchildren of nature" : East Lynne and the spectre of female degeneracy, 1860-1861 / Andrew Maunder; title: Murder, gender, and popular fiction by women in the 1860s : Braddon, Oliphant, Yonge / June Sturrock; title: Anatomy of a "nine days' wonder" : sensational journalism in the decade of sensation / Dallas Liddle; title: The inside story : crime, convicts and careers for women / Barbara Onslow; title: "The truth of midnight" and "the truth of noonday" : sensation and madness in James Thomson's The city of dreadful night / Dafydd Moore; title: Puffed papers and broken promises : white-collar crime and literary justice in the way we live now / Karen Odden; title: Something to Hyde : the "strange preference" of Henry Jekyll" / Grace Moore; title: The novelization of the Dreyfus Affair : femininity and sensation in fin-de-siècle France / Christopher E. Forth; title: "Furious passions of the Celtic race" : Ireland, madness and Wilkie Collins's Blind love / Maria K. Bachman; title: Time's hand : fingerprints, empire, and Victorian narratives of crime / Gita Panjabi Trelease; title: Vamping the children : the bloofer lady, the London minotaur and child-victimization in late-nineteenth-century England / Leslie Ann Minot; title: Ballad of a demon barber : the criminal career of George Chapman / Nicholas Freeman.