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Victorian crime, madness and sensation / edited by Andrew Maunder, Grace Moore.

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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-siecle killer, Victorian Crime, Madness, and Sensation throws new light on nineteenth-century attitudes toward crime and 'deviance�...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Other Authors: Maunder, Andrew (Editor), Moore, Grace, 1974- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, 2016.
Series:Nineteenth century (Aldershot, England)
Subjects:
English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
Crime in literature.
Crime > Great Britain > History > 19th century > Historiography.
Great Britain > Social conditions > 19th century > Historiography.
Great Britain > History > Victoria, 1837-1901 > Historiography.
English prose literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Detective and mystery stories, English > History and criticism.
Sensationalism in literature.
Mentally ill in literature.
Criminals in literature.
Crime > Historiography.
Detective and mystery stories, English.
English fiction.
English prose literature.
Historiography.
Social history > Historiography.
Great Britain.
1800-1901
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • 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 ní 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, 1860-1861 / 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 sensation / 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-nineteenth-century England / Leslie Ann Minot
  • Ballad of a demon barber : the criminal career of George Chapman / Nicholas Freeman.

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