{"product_id":"sex-crime-and-literature-in-ian-ward-9781509904983","title":"Sex, Crime and Literature in Victorian England","description":"The Victorians worried about many things, prominent among their worries being the 'condition' of England and the 'question' of its women. \u003ci\u003eSex, Crime and \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eLiterature in Victorian England\u003c\/i\u003e revisits these particular anxieties, concentrating more closely upon four 'crimes' which generated especial concern amongst contemporaries: adultery, bigamy, infanticide and prostitution. Each engaged questions of sexuality and its regulation, legal, moral and cultural, for which reason each attracted the considerable interest not just of lawyers and parliamentarians, but also novelists and poets and perhaps most importantly those who, in ever-larger numbers, liked to pass their leisure hours reading about sex and crime. Alongside statutes such as the 1857 Matrimonial Causes Act and the 1864 Contagious Diseases Act, \u003ci\u003eSex, Crime and Literature in Victorian England \u003c\/i\u003econtemplates those texts which shaped Victorian attitudes towards England's 'condition' and the 'question' of its women: the novels of Dickens, Thackeray and Eliot, the works of sensationalists such as Ellen Wood and Mary Braddon, and the poetry of Gabriel and Christina Rossetti. \u003ci\u003eSex, Crime and Literature in Victorian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEngland\u003c\/i\u003e is a richly contextual commentary on a critical period in the evolution of modern legal and cultural attitudes to the relation of crime, sexuality and the family.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview\u003cbr\u003e'Ward successfully provides a legal and legislative context to texts that both shaped and reflected the Victorian psyche ... this book would be an excellent addition to an academic library as it has broad appeal to those studying law, literature, history, and gender studies'.\u003cbr\u003eAlexia Loumankis, \u003ci\u003eCanadian Law Library Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ian Ward\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1509904980\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781509904983\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/19\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 160\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.57lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.40d","brand":"Ian Ward","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43935425626367,"sku":"9781509904983","price":32.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_4c97b650-2756-4966-a536-d6af63b7fb12.jpg?v=1681419725","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/sex-crime-and-literature-in-ian-ward-9781509904983","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}