| Description |
1 online resource (274 pages) |
| Series |
The Nineteenth Century Series |
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Nineteenth Century Series
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- General Editor's Preface -- List of Illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Regicide and Reginamania: G.W.M. Reynolds and The Mysteries of London -- 2 The Making of a Master Criminal: The 'Chief of the Thugs' in Victorian Writings on Crime -- 3 Black Markets and Cadaverous Pies: The Corpse, Urban Trade and Industrial Consumption in the Penny Blood -- 4 "Stepchildren of Nature": East Lynne and the Spectre of Female Degeneracy, 1860-1861 -- 5 Murder, Gender, and Popular Fiction by Women in the 1860s: Braddon, Oliphant, Yonge -- 6 Anatomy of a "Nine Days' Wonder": Sensational Journalism in the Decade of the Sensation Novel -- 7 The Inside Story: Crime, Convicts and Careers for Women -- 8 "The Truth of Midnight" and "The Truth of Noonday": Sensation and Madness in James Thomson's The City of Dreadful Night -- 9 Puffed Papers and Broken Promises: White-Collar Crime and Literary Justice in The Way We Live Now -- 10 Something to Hyde: The "Strange Preference" of Henry Jekyll -- 11 The Novelization of the Dreyfus Affair: Femininity and Sensation in Fin-de-Siècle France -- 12 "Furious Passions of the Celtic Race": Ireland, Madness and Wilkie Collins's Blind Love -- 13 Time's Hand: Fingerprints, Empire, and Victorian Narratives of Crime -- 14 Vamping the Children: The "Bloofer Lady", the "London Minotaur" and Child-Victimization in Late Nineteenth-Century England -- 15 Ballad of a Demon Barber: The Criminal Career of George Chapman -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Crime in literature.
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Crime in literature
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Moore, Grace
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Shattock, Joanne
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| ISBN |
9781351875929 |
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1351875922 |
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