Masculinity, Crime and Self-Defence in Victorian Literature: Duelling with Danger (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)

Masculinity, Crime and Self-Defence in Victorian Literature: Duelling with Danger

(Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Forfatter: E. Godfrey



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Now in paperback, this book considers crime fighting from the perspective of the civilian city-goer, from the mid-Victorian garotting panics to 1914. It charts the shift from the use of body armour to the adoption of exotic martial arts through the works of popular playwrights and novelists, examining changing ideals of urban, middle-class heroism.

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Forlag Palgrave Macmillan
Forfatter E. Godfrey
Type Bog
Format Paperback / softback
Sprog Engelsk
Udgave 1st ed. 2011
Udgivelsesdato 01-01-2011
Første udgivelsesår 2011
Serie Crime Files
Illustrationer XII, 201 p.
Originalsprog United Kingdom
Sideantal 201
Indbinding Paperback / softback
Forlag Palgrave Macmillan
Sideoplysninger 201 pages, XII, 201 p.
Mål 235 x 155
ISBN-13 / EAN-13 9781349323951