| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 284 pages) : illustrations |
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Private and public eyes : Sherlock Holmes and the invisible woman -- Beautiful for ever! cosmetics, consumerism, L.T. Meade, and Madame Rachel -- The limits of the gaze : class, gender, and authority in early British cinema -- Dynamite, interrupted : gender in James's and Conrad's novels of failed terror -- "An invitation to dynamite" : female revolutionaries in late-Victorian dynamite narrative |
| Summary |
Framed uses fin de siècle British crime narrative to pose the question: why do female criminal characters tend to be alluring and appealing while fictional male criminals of the era are unsympathetic or even grotesque? The author addresses this question, examining popular literary and cinematic culture from roughly 1880 to 1914 to shed light on an otherwise overlooked social and cultural type: the conspicuously glamorous New Woman criminal. In so doing, she breaks with the many Foucauldian studies of crime to emphasize the genuinely subversive aspects of these popular female figures. Drawing on a rich body of archival material, Miller argues that the New Woman Criminal exploited iconic elements of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century commodity culture, including cosmetics and clothing, to fashion an illicit identity that enabled her to subvert legal authority in both the public and the private spheres |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Includes filmography |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Detective and mystery stories, English -- History and criticism
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English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
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Female offenders in literature.
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Terrorism in literature.
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Consumption (Economics) in literature.
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Feminism and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
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Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
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Detective and mystery films -- Great Britain -- History and criticism
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Women in popular culture -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Consumption (Economics) in literature
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Detective and mystery films
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Detective and mystery stories, English
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English fiction
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Female offenders in literature
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Feminism and literature
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Literature and society
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Terrorism in literature
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Women in popular culture
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Literatur
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Weibliche Kriminelle Motiv
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Kultur
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Weibliche Kriminelle
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Frauenkriminalität -- Motiv -- Roman -- englischer.
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Roman -- englischer -- Motiv -- Frauenkriminalität.
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Kriminalliteratur -- englische.
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Kriminalfilm -- Grossbritannien.
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Kriminalliteratur -- englische -- Geschichte 19. Jh.
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Litteratur och samhälle -- historia -- Storbritannien -- 1800-talet.
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Kriminallitteratur -- historia -- Storbritannien.
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Great Britain
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Großbritannien
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Englisch.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2020715708 |
| ISBN |
9780472024469 |
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0472024469 |
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9780472900473 |
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0472900471 |
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1282445243 |
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9781282445246 |
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9786612445248 |
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6612445246 |
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