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Author:

Mangham, Andrew, 1979-

Title:

Violent women and sensation fiction : crime, medicine and Victorian popular culture / Andrew Mangham.

Publisher:

Palgrave Macmillan,

Copyright Date:

2007

Description:

x, 247 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
Sensationalism in literature
Women in literature.
Violence in women.
Law and literature--Great Britain--History--19th century.
Literature and medicine--Great Britain--History--19th century.
Journalism and literature--Great Britain--History--19th century.
Braddon, M. E.--(Mary Elizabeth),--1835-1915--Criticism and interpretation.
Wood, Henry,--Mrs.,--1814-1887--Criticism and interpretation.
Collins, Wilkie,--1824-1889--Criticism and interpretation.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-241) and index.

Contents:

Explosive materials : legal, medical, and journalistic profiles of the violent woman -- 'The terrible chemistry of nature' : the road murder and popular fiction -- 'Frail erections' : exploiting violent women in the work 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.

ISBN:

0230545211 (alk. paper)
9780230545212 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)124951040

LCCN:

2007022496

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)