Title: Violent Women and Sensation Fiction
Description: This new study explores the way that stories and images of 'explosive' femininity worked across generic and disciplinary boundaries during the Victorian era. Andrew Mangham explores the era's problematic criminalisation of female behaviour with reference to medical theories on women's psychology, reports of notorious criminal cases, like Constance Kent's and Madeline Smith's, and the popular fictions of Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Mrs Henry Wood and Wilkie Collins.
Subjects: Women in literature, History and criticism, Criticism and interpretation, Violence in women, Literature and medicine, Sensationalism in literature, English fiction, Law and literature, History, Journalism and literature, Violence in literature, English fiction, history and criticism, 19th century, Women, Journalism, History, 19th Century, Violence, Medicine in Literature, LITERARY CRITICISM, European, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Gender studies: women, Popular culture