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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Seitenzahl: 247
• 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).