A. Mangham

Violent Women and Sensation Fiction (eBook, PDF)

Crime, Medicine and Victorian Popular Culture

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores ideas of violent femininity across generic and disciplinary boundaries during the nineteenth century. It aims to highlight how medical, legal and literary narratives shared notions of the volatile nature of women. Mangham traces intersections between notorious legal trials, theories of female insanity, and sensation novels.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780230286993
• Artikelnr.: 45964776

Autorenporträt

ANDREW MANGHAM is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Reading, UK. He is the editor of Wilkie Collins: Interdisciplinary Essays (2007).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction Smouldering Fires: Legal, Medical and Journalistic Profiles of the Violent Woman 'The Terrible Chemistry of Nature': Literary Representations of the Road Murder 'Frail Erections': Male Ambition and the Exploitation of Violent Women in the Fiction of Mary Elizabeth Braddon 'Nest-Building Apes': Female Follies and Bourgeois Culture in the Novels of Mrs Henry Wood Hidden Shadows: Dangerous Women and Obscure Diseases in the Novels of Wilkie Collins Conclusion Bibliography Index