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Violent Women and Sensation Fiction: Crime, Medicine and Victorian Popular Culture

By Andrew Mangham

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2007
ISBN
0230545211, 9780230545212
Open Library ID
OL10194581M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1630489 bytes)
Edition
First Edition
Pages
247\258
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40

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.

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