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Masculinity, crime and self-defence in Victorian literature

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Masculinity, crime and self-defence in Victorian literature/ Emelyne Godfrey.
Author:	Godfrey, Emelyne.
Published:	New York :Palgrave Macmillan, : 2011.,
Description:	p. cm.
Subject:	English literature - History and criticism. - 19th century -
Online resource:	An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information
ISBN:	9780230294998 (electronic bk.)

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

Masculinity, crime and self-defence in Victorian literature[electronic resource] /Emelyne Godfrey. - New York :Palgrave Macmillan,2011. - p. cm. - Crime files.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 below and above -- 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.

This book considers crime fighting from the seldom explored viewpoint of the civilian city-goer. While rates of violent crime were generally declining, the period from the 'garotting' (strangling) panics of the 1850s to the First World War was characterized by a cultural fascination with physical threat and personal protection. As masculine violence became less tolerated, literary giants such as Anthony Trollope and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle began to ask themselves which methods the pedestrian should employ in this new age. From the pistol duel to the Whitechapel Murders, the self-defence scenario provided an avenue through which contrasting visions of masculinity could be explored. Here, not only literary sources but artefacts tell some bizarre stories. Why was the truncheon-like stick known as the 'life-preserver' so dangerous, and what exactly was Sherlock Holmes' mysterious skill, 'baritsu'?

Electronic reproduction.
Basingstoke, England :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2011.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

ISBN: 9780230294998 (electronic bk.)

Source: 412273Palgrave Macmillanhttp://www.palgraveconnect.comSubjects--Topical Terms:

560374
English literature
--History and criticism.--19th centuryIndex Terms--Genre/Form:

554714
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: PR468.M38 / G63 2011

Dewey Class. No.: 820.9/3521

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