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Twisting in the Wind : the Murderess and the English Press.
Murders by women were sensationalized in the English press during the 19th-century. Knelman analyses histories of different kinds of murder and explores how press representations of the murderess contributed to the Victorian construction of femininity.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Toronto :
University of Toronto Press,
1998.
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| Edición: | 2nd ed. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part One: Patterns and Perceptions
- 1. The Case of the Vanishing Murderess
- 2. The Popular Press
- Part Two: Murder
- 3. Multiple Murder
- 4. Murder of Husbands, Lovers, or Rivals in Love
- 5. Child Murder
- 6. Baby-Farming and Infanticide
- 7. Murder of and by Servants
- 8. Murder of the Elderly
- Part Three: Meaning
- 9. The Image of the Murderess
- 10. The Feminine Perspective
- 11. The Body of the Murderess
- 12. The Murder of the Murderess
- Conclusion
- Appendix
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- V
- W
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