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Masculinity, crime and self-defence in Victorian literature

[NT 42944] Record Type:	[NT 8598] Electronic resources : [NT 40817] monographic
[NT 47261] Author:	GodfreyEmelyne.,
[NT 47356] Secondary Intellectual Responsibility:	Palgrave Connect (Online service)
[NT 47351] Place of Publication:	New York
[NT 47263] Published:	Palgrave Macmillan;
[NT 47352] Year of Publication:	2011
[NT 47264] Description:	p. cm.
[NT 47298] Series:	Crime files
[NT 47266] Subject:	English literature - History and criticism. - 19th century -
[NT 47266] Subject:	Masculinity in literature. -
[NT 47266] Subject:	Crime in literature. -
[NT 51458] Online resource:	http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230294998An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information
[NT 51398] Summary:	This book considers crime fighting from the seldom explored viewpoint of the civilian city-goer. While rates of violent crime were generally declining, the period from the 'garotting' (strangling) panics of the 1850s to the First World War was characterized by a cultural fascination with physical threat and personal protection. As masculine violence beclme less tolerated, literary giants such as Anthony Trollope and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle began to ask themselves which methods the pedestrian should employ in this new age. From the pistol duel to the Whitechapel Murders, the self-defence scenario provided an avenue through which contrasting visions of masculinity could be explored. Here, not only literary sources but artefacts tell some bizarre stories. Why was the truncheon-like stick known as the 'life-preserver' so dangerous, and what exactly was Sherlock Holmes' mysterious skill, 'baritsu'?
[NT 50961] ISBN:	9780230294998electronic bk.
[NT 50961] ISBN:	0230294995electronic bk.
[NT 60779] Content Note:	The garotting farce: armoured masculinity and its limits: 1851-67 Foreign crimes hit British shores The ticket-of-leave man Tooled up: the pedestrian's armoury Anthony Trollope: aggression punished and rewarded: 1867-87 Threats from below and above Lord Chiltern and Mr. Kennedy Phineas redux Physical flamboyance in the Sherlock Holmes canon: 1887-1914 Exotic enemies Urban knights in the London streets Foreign friends.

Masculinity, crime and self-defence in Victorian literature
Godfrey, Emelyne.

Masculinity, crime and self-defence in Victorian literature / Emelyne Godfrey. - New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. - p. cm.. - (Crime files).
The garotting farce: armoured masculinity and its limits: 1851-67.
Includes bibliographical references and index..
ISBN 9780230294998ISBN 0230294995
English literatureMasculinity in literature.Crime in literature. -- History and criticism. -- 19th century

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