Andrew Maunder

Victorian Crime, Madness and Sensation (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Moore, Grace

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Beginning with Victoria's enthronement and an exploration of sensationalist accounts of attacks on the Queen, and ending with the notorious case of a fin-de-siècle killer, Victorian Crime, Madness and Sensation throws new light on nineteenth-century attitudes toward crime and 'deviance'. The essays, which draw on both canonical and liminal texts, examine the Victorian fascination with criminal psychology and pathology, engaging with real life cases alongside fictional accounts by writers as diverse as Ainsworth, Stevenson, and Stoker. Among the topics are shifting definitions of criminality and the ways in which discourses surrounding crime changed during the nineteenth century, the literal and social criminalization of particular sex acts, and the gendering of degeneration and insanity. As fascinated as they were with criminality, the Victorians were equally concerned with solving crime, and this collection also focuses on the forces of law enforcement and nineteenth-century attempts to "read" the criminal body as revealed in Victorian crime fiction and reportage. Contributors engage with the detective figure and his growing professionalization, while examining the role of science and technology - both at home and in the Empire - in solving cases.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. März 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351875929
• Artikelnr.: 47954603

Autorenporträt

Andrew Maunder is senior lecturer in English at the University of Hertfordshire. He has written on the Cornhill Magazine, Christina Rossetti, Anthony Trollope and Mrs. Henry Wood. At present he is working on a study of Bram Stoker. Grace Moore is Lecturer in Literary Studies at the University of Melbourne, Australia. She wrote Dickens and Empire, also published by Ashgate.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction
Andrew Maunder & Grace Moore; Regicide and reginamania: G.W.M. Reynolds and The Mysteries of London
John Plunkett; The making of a master criminal: the 'chief of the thugs' in Victorian writings on crime
Máire nà Fhlathúin; Black markets and cadaverous pies: the corpse
urban trade and industrial consumption in the Penny Blood
Sally Powell; 'Stepchildren of nature': East Lynne and the spectre of female degeneracy
1860-61
Andrew Maunder; Murder
gender
and popular fiction by women in the 1860s: Braddon
Oliphant
Yonge
June Sturrock; Anatomy of a 'nine days' wonder': sensational journalism in the decade of the sensation novel
Dallas Liddle; The inside story: crime
convicts
and careers for women
Barbara Onslow; 'The truth of midnight' and 'The truth of noonday': sensation and madness in James Thomson's The City of Dreadful Night
Dafydd Moore; Puffed papers and broken promises: white-collar crime and literary justice in The Way We Live Now
Karen Odden; Something to Hyde: the 'strange preference' of Henry Jekyll
Grace Moore; The novelization of the Dreyfus Affair: femininity and sensation in fin-de-siècle France
Christopher E. Forth; 'Furious passions of the Celtic race': Ireland
madness and Wilkie Collins's Blind Love
Maria K. Bachman; Time's hand: fingerprints
empire
and Victorian narratives of crime
Gita Panjabi Trelease; Vamping the children: the 'Bloofer Lady'
the 'London Minotaur' and child-victimization in late 19th-century England
Leslie Ann Minot; Ballad of a demon barber: the criminal career of George Chapman
Nicholas Freeman; Bibliography; Index.