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Gender, Crime, and Murder in Victorian England

Author : Anna Kay
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781032264509
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (645 download)

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Download or read book Gender, Crime, and Murder in Victorian England written by Anna Kay and published by . This book was released on 2024 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gender, Crime, and Murder in Victorian England seeks to provide a comprehensive examination of the notorious Mannings' Bermondsey murder', and its wider implications in Victorian criminal narrative and popular culture. Exploring the ongoing textual afterlife of Maria Manning, including significant literary contributions by Charles Dickens through his characters Mademoiselle Hortense and Madame Defarge, this volume illuminates representations both echoed and challenged in mid-nineteenth-century conceptions of gender, sexuality, class, nationality, religion, and criminality. This volume also examines the five largely forgotten cases of female homicide from the same year and the imagined discourse perpetuated in fictional personifications. Utilising a wide breadth of literary and historical research, this volume provides readers with a thorough understanding of the various cultural implications of crime and gender in the Victorian period tobe read, remembered, and reinterpreted today. Located simultaneously in the fields of feminist, historical, and literary criticism, this volume is invaluable to students of nineteenth-century literature and culture, and researchers with an interest in criminology and media culture.

Gender, Crime, and Murder in Victorian England

Author : Anna Kay
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000933075
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Gender, Crime, and Murder in Victorian England written by Anna Kay and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-09-25 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gender, Crime, and Murder in Victorian England seeks to provide a comprehensive examination of the notorious Mannings' ‘Bermondsey murder’, and its wider implications in Victorian criminal narrative and popular culture. Exploring the ongoing textual afterlife of Maria Manning, including significant literary contributions by Charles Dickens through his characters Mademoiselle Hortense and Madame Defarge, this volume illuminates representations both echoed and challenged in mid-nineteenth-century conceptions of gender, sexuality, class, nationality, religion, and criminality. This volume also examines the five largely forgotten cases of female homicide from the same year and the imagined discourse perpetuated in fictional personifications. Utilising a wide breadth of literary and historical research, this volume provides readers with a thorough understanding of the various cultural implications of crime and gender in the Victorian period to be read, remembered, and reinterpreted today. Located simultaneously in the fields of feminist, historical, and literary criticism, this volume is invaluable to students of nineteenth-century literature and culture, and researchers with an interest in criminology and media culture.

Victorian Murderesses

Author : Mary S. Hartman
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486780473
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (867 download)

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Download or read book Victorian Murderesses written by Mary S. Hartman and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2014-06-18 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Riveting combination of true crime and social history examines a dozen famous cases, offering illuminating details of the accused women's backgrounds, deeds, and trials. "Vividly written, meticulously researched." — Choice.

Sex, Crime and Literature in Victorian England

Author : Ian Ward
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1782253696
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (822 download)

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Download or read book Sex, Crime and Literature in Victorian England written by Ian Ward and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-11-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Victorians worried about many things, prominent among their worries being the 'condition' of England and the 'question' of its women. Sex, Crime and Literature in Victorian England revisits these particular anxieties, concentrating more closely upon four 'crimes' which generated especial concern amongst contemporaries: adultery, bigamy, infanticide and prostitution. Each engaged questions of sexuality and its regulation, legal, moral and cultural, for which reason each attracted the considerable interest not just of lawyers and parliamentarians, but also novelists and poets and perhaps most importantly those who, in ever-larger numbers, liked to pass their leisure hours reading about sex and crime. Alongside statutes such as the 1857 Matrimonial Causes Act and the 1864 Contagious Diseases Act, Sex, Crime and Literature in Victorian England contemplates those texts which shaped Victorian attitudes towards England's 'condition' and the 'question' of its women: the novels of Dickens, Thackeray and Eliot, the works of sensationalists such as Ellen Wood and Mary Braddon, and the poetry of Gabriel and Christina Rossetti. Sex, Crime and Literature in Victorian England is a richly contextual commentary on a critical period in the evolution of modern legal and cultural attitudes to the relation of crime, sexuality and the family.

Men of Blood

Author : Martin J. Wiener
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521831989
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book Men of Blood written by Martin J. Wiener and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-01-12 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sample Text

Victorian Murderesses

Author : Naz Bulamur
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443888672
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Victorian Murderesses written by Naz Bulamur and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2016-02-08 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Victorian Murderesses investigates the politics of female violence in Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the D’Urbervilles (1891), George Eliot’s Adam Bede (1859), Mary Braddon’s Lady Audley’s Secret (1862), and Florence Marryat’s The Blood of the Vampire (1897). The controversial figure of the murderess in these four novels challenges the assumption that women are essentially nurturing and passive and that violence and aggression are exclusively male traits. By focusing on the representations of murder committed by women, this book demonstrates how legal and even medical discourses endorsed Victorian domestic ideology, as female criminals were often locked up in asylums and publicly executed without substantial evidence. While paying close attention to the social, economic, judicial, and political dynamics of Victorian England, this interdisciplinary study also tackles the question of female agency, as the novels simultaneously portray women as perpetrators of murder and excuse their socially unacceptable traits of anger and violence by invoking heredity and madness. Although the four novels tend to undercut female power and attribute violence to adulterous women, they are revolutionary enough to deploy female characters who rebel against male sovereignty and their domestic roles by stabbing their rapists and even killing their newborns. Victorian studies on gender and violence focus primarily on female victims of sexual harassment, and real and fictional male killers like Dracula and Jack the Ripper. Victorian Murderesses contributes to the field by investigating how literary representations of female violence counter the idealisation of women as angelic housewives.

The Invention of Murder

Author : Judith Flanders
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1250024889
Total Pages : 570 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Invention of Murder written by Judith Flanders and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-07-23 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Superb... Flanders's convincing and smart synthesis of the evolution of an official police force, fictional detectives, and real-life cause célèbres will appeal to devotees of true crime and detective fiction alike." -Publishers Weekly, starred review In this fascinating exploration of murder in nineteenth century England, Judith Flanders examines some of the most gripping cases that captivated the Victorians and gave rise to the first detective fiction Murder in the nineteenth century was rare. But murder as sensation and entertainment became ubiquitous, with cold-blooded killings transformed into novels, broadsides, ballads, opera, and melodrama-even into puppet shows and performing dog-acts. Detective fiction and the new police force developed in parallel, each imitating the other-the founders of Scotland Yard gave rise to Dickens's Inspector Bucket, the first fictional police detective, who in turn influenced Sherlock Holmes and, ultimately, even P.D. James and Patricia Cornwell. In this meticulously researched and engrossing book, Judith Flanders retells the gruesome stories of many different types of murder in Great Britain, both famous and obscure: from Greenacre, who transported his dismembered fiancée around town by omnibus, to Burke and Hare's bodysnatching business in Edinburgh; from the crimes (and myths) of Sweeney Todd and Jack the Ripper, to the tragedy of the murdered Marr family in London's East End. Through these stories of murder-from the brutal to the pathetic-Flanders builds a rich and multi-faceted portrait of Victorian society in Great Britain. With an irresistible cast of swindlers, forgers, and poisoners, the mad, the bad and the utterly dangerous, The Invention of Murder is both a mesmerizing tale of crime and punishment, and history at its most readable.

The Penguin Book of Victorian Women in Crime

Author : Michael Sims
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101486171
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book The Penguin Book of Victorian Women in Crime written by Michael Sims and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-01-25 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wonderfully wicked new anthology from the editor of The Penguin Book of Gaslight Crime It is the Victorian era and society is both entranced by and fearful of that suspicious character known as the New Woman. She rides those new- fangled bicycles and doesn't like to be told what to do. And, in crime fiction, such female detectives as Loveday Brooke, Dorcas Dene, and Lady Molly of Scotland Yard are out there shadowing suspects, crawling through secret passages, fingerprinting corpses, and sometimes committing a lesser crime in order to solve a murder. In The Penguin Book of Victorian Women in Crime, Michael Sims has brought together all of the era's great crime-fighting females- plus a few choice crooks, including Four Square Jane and the Sorceress of the Strand.

Victorian Murderesses

Author : Mary S. Hartman
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486794938
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (867 download)

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Download or read book Victorian Murderesses written by Mary S. Hartman and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2014-05-05 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Riveting combination of true crime and social history examines a dozen famous cases, offering illuminating details of the accused women's backgrounds, deeds, and trials. "Vividly written, meticulously researched." — Choice.

Criminal Conversations

Author : Judith Rowbotham
Publisher : Ohio State University Press
ISBN 13 : 0814209734
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (142 download)

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Download or read book Criminal Conversations written by Judith Rowbotham and published by Ohio State University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The essays in this book set out to explore the ways in which Victorians used newspapers to identify the causes of bad behavior and its impacts, and the ways in which they tried to "distance" criminals and those guilty of "bad" behavior from the ordinary members of society, including identification of them as different according to race of sexual orientation. It also explores how threats from within "normal" society were depicted and the panic that issues like "baby-farming" caused." "Victorian alarm was about crimes and bad behavior which they saw as new or unique to their period - but which were not new then and which, in slightly different dress, are still causing panic today. What is striking about the essays in this collection are the ways in which they echo contemporary concerns about crime and bad behavior, including panics about "new" types of crime. This has implications for modern understandings of how society needs to understand crime, demonstrating that while there are changes over time, there are also important continuities."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Domestic Murder in Nineteenth-Century England

Author : Dr Bridget Walsh
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1472421035
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (724 download)

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Download or read book Domestic Murder in Nineteenth-Century England written by Dr Bridget Walsh and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2014-06-28 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining novels, trial transcripts, medico-legal documents, broadsides, criminal and scientific writing, illustration and, notably, Victorian melodrama, Bridget Walsh focuses on the relationship between the domestic sphere, so central to Victorian values, and the desecration of that space by the act of murder. Her book tackles crucial questions related to Victorian ideas of nationhood, national health, inequality, newspaper coverage of murder, contested models of masculinity and the portrayal of the female domestic murderer at the fin de siècle.

Double Jeopardy

Author : Virginia B. Morris
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813163765
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book Double Jeopardy written by Virginia B. Morris and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Murder fascinates readers, and when a woman murders, that fascination is compounded. The paradox of mother, lover, or wife as killer fills us with shock. A woman's violence is unexpected, unacceptable. Yet killing an abusive man can make her a cultural heroine. In Double Jeopardy, Virginia Morris examines the complex roots of contemporary attitudes toward women who kill by providing a new perspective on violent women in Victorian literature. British novelists from Dickens to Hardy, in their characterizations, contradicted the traditional Western assumption that women criminals were "unnatural." The strongest evidence of their view is that the novelists make the women's victims deserve their violent death. Yet the women characters who commit murder are punished because their sympathetic Victorian creators had internalized the cultural biases that expected women to be passive and subservient. Fictional women, like their real-life counterparts, were doubly guilty: in defying the law, they also defied their gender role. Because they were "unwomanly," they were thought worse than male criminals -- more vicious and more incorrigible. At the same time, they often got special treatment from the police and the courts simply because they were women. These contradictory attitudes reveal the critical significance of gender in defining criminal behavior and in fixing punishments. Morris provides literary and historical background for the novelists' ideas about women killers and traces the evolving notion that abused or misused women were capable of using justifiable -- if unforgivable -- violence. She argues that the criminal women in Victorian literature epitomize the ambivalent position of women generally and the particular vulnerability of a deviant minority. Her book is a valuable resource for readers concerned with criminology, literature, and feminist studies.

Twisting in the Wind

Author : Judith Knelman
Publisher : Heritage
ISBN 13 : 9780802074201
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book Twisting in the Wind written by Judith Knelman and published by Heritage. This book was released on 1998 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Murders by women were sensationalized in the English press during the 19th-century. Knelman analyses histories of different kinds of murder and explores how press representations of the murderess contributed to the Victorian construction of femininity.

Wayward Women

Author : Lucy Williams
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473844886
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)

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Download or read book Wayward Women written by Lucy Williams and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2016-01-31 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We most often think of the Victorian female offender in her most archetypal and stereotypical roles; the polite lady shoplifter, stowing all manner of valuables beneath her voluminous crinolines, the tragic street waif of Dickensian fiction or the vicious femme fatale who wreaked her terrible revenge with copious poison. Yet the stories in popular novels and the Penny Dreadfuls of the day have passed down to us only half the story of these women and their crimes. From the everyday street scuffles and pocket pickings of crowded slums, to the sensational trials that dominated national headlines; the women of Victorian England were responsible for a diverse and at times completely unexpected level of deviance. This book takes a closer look at women and crime in the Victorian period. With vivid real-life stories, powerful photos, eye-opening cases and wider discussions that give us an insightful illustration of the lives of the women responsible for them. This history of brawlers, thieves, traffickers and sneaks shows individuals navigating a world where life was hard and resources were scarce. Their tales are of poverty, opportunism, violence, hope and despair; but perhaps most importantly, the story of survival in the ruthless world of the past.

Crime in Verse

Author : Alessandro Albisetti
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788814210853
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Crime in Verse written by Alessandro Albisetti and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oltre a un'appendice di documenti, il volume contiene un'introduzione che vuole essere, ad un tempo, una riflessione e un ricordo relativi al conferimento - in data 17 marzo 1990 - della Laurea ad honorem di Giurisprudenza al Cardinale Agostino Casaroli presso l'Università di arma.

Murder by the Book

Author : Claire Harman
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0525436154
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (254 download)

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Download or read book Murder by the Book written by Claire Harman and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2020-02-04 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early on the morning of May 6, 1840, the elderly Lord William Russell was found in his London house with his throat so deeply cut that his head was nearly severed. The crime soon had everyone, including Queen Victoria, feverishly speculating about motives and methods. But when the prime suspect claimed to have been inspired by a sensational crime novel, it sent shock waves through literary London and drew both Dickens and Thackeray into the fray. Could a novel really lead someone to kill? In Murder by the Book, Claire Harman blends a riveting true-crime whodunit with a fascinating account of the rise of the popular novel and the early battle for its soul among the most famous writers of the day.

Histories of Crime

Author : Anne-Marie Kilday
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350307807
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Histories of Crime written by Anne-Marie Kilday and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2010-06-03 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing a rounded and coherent history of crime and the law spanning the past 400 years, Histories of Crime explores the evolution of attitudes towards crime and criminality over time. Bringing together contributions from internationally acknowledged experts, the book highlights themes, current issues and key debates in the history of deviance and bad behaviour, including: - Marital cruelty and adultery - Infanticide - Murder - The underworld - Blasphemy and moral crimes - Fraud and white-collar crime - The death penalty and punishment. Individual case studies of violent and non-violent crime are used to explore the human means and motives behind criminal practice. Through these, the book illuminates society's wider attitudes and fears about criminal behaviour and the way in which these influence the law and legal system over time. This fascinating book is essential reading for students and teachers of history, sociology and criminology, as well as anyone interested in Britain's criminal past.