Masculinity, crime and self-defence in Victorian literature / Emelyne Godfrey.

Author/creator Godfrey, Emelyne
Format Book
Publication InfoHoundmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Descriptionxii, 201 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Subjects

SeriesCrime files
Crime files series. ^A476047
Contents 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 above and below -- 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2010034132
ISBN9780230273450 (alk. paper)
ISBN0230273459 (alk. paper)

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks PR468.M38 G63 2011 ✔ Available Place Hold