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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Miller, Elizabeth Carolyn, 1974-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press : University of Michigan Library, ©2008.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • The limits of the gaze : class, gender, and authority in early British cinema
  • Dynamite, interrupted : gender in James's and Conrad's novels of failed terror
  • "An invitation to dynamite" : female revolutionaries in late-Victorian dynamite narrative.