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Masculinity, Crime and Self-Defence in Victorian Literature /

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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, examini...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Godfrey, Emelyne (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Series:Crime files series.
Subjects:
Literature.
British and Irish Literature.
Fiction.
Gender Studies.
Nineteenth-Century Literature.
Theatre History.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
British literature.
Gender expression.
Gender identity.
Literature, Modern > 19th century.
Literature, Modern > 20th century.
Sex (Psychology)
Sociology.
Theater > History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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