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Framed : the new woman criminal in British culture at the Fin de Siècle /
Framed uses fin de siècle British crime narrative to pose the question: why do female criminal characters tend to be alluring and appealing while fictional male criminals of the era are unsympathetic or even grotesque? The author addresses this question, examining popular literary and cinematic cul...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ann Arbor :
University of Michigan Press : University of Michigan Library,
©2008.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Framed uses fin de siècle British crime narrative to pose the question: why do female criminal characters tend to be alluring and appealing while fictional male criminals of the era are unsympathetic or even grotesque? The author addresses this question, examining popular literary and cinematic culture from roughly 1880 to 1914 to shed light on an otherwise overlooked social and cultural type: the conspicuously glamorous New Woman criminal. In so doing, she breaks with the many Foucauldian studies of crime to emphasize the genuinely subversive aspects of these popular female figures. Drawing on a rich body of archival material, Miller argues that the New Woman Criminal exploited iconic elements of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century commodity culture, including cosmetics and clothing, to fashion an illicit identity that enabled her to subvert legal authority in both the public and the private spheres. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 284 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. Includes filmography. |
| ISBN: | 9780472024469 0472024469 9780472900473 0472900471 1282445243 9781282445246 9786612445248 6612445246 |
| Acceso: | Open Access |