Double Jeopardy: Women Who Kill in Victorian Fiction by Morris, Virginia B.

Double Jeopardy: Women Who Kill in Victorian Fiction (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780813153582)

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Double Jeopardy: Women Who Kill in Victorian Fiction by Morris, Virginia B.

Double Jeopardy: Women Who Kill in Victorian Fiction

$25.00
Double Jeopardy: Women Who Kill in Victorian Fiction by Morris, Virginia B.

Double Jeopardy: Women Who Kill in Victorian Fiction

$25.00
Format: Paperback
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Murder fascinates readers, and when a woman murders, that fascination is compounded. The paradox of mother, lover, or wife as killer fills us with shock. A woman's violence is unexpected, unacceptable. Yet killing an abusive man can make her a cultural heroine. In Double Jeopardy, Virginia Morris examines the complex roots of contemporary attitudes toward women who kill by providing a new perspective on violent women in Victorian literature. British novelists from Dickens to Hardy, in their cha

Author: Virginia B. Morris
ISBN-10: 0813153581
ISBN-13: 9780813153582
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Language: English
Published: 07/15/2014
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.56lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.45d
By Virginia B. Morris
By Virginia B. Morris
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Virginia Morris, associate professor of English at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York, writes about literature and crime.

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