Masculinity, Crime and Self-Defence in Victorian Literature: Duelling with Danger (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780230273450)

Vendor: E. Godfrey
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Format: Hardcover
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Masculinity, Crime and Self-Defence in Victorian Literature: Duelling with Danger

$54.99

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

$54.99
Format: Hardcover
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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.

Author: E. Godfrey
ISBN-10: 0230273459
ISBN-13: 9780230273450
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 12/03/2010
Pages: 201
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.83lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.70w x 0.80d
By E. Godfrey
By E. Godfrey
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Emelyne Godfrey graduated with a PhD in English from Birkbeck College, University of London, UK. A freelance writer and researcher, she has written academic articles, dictionary and encyclopaedia entries and poetry. She is a regular contributor to History Today and is the Publicity Officer for the H.G. Wells Society.

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