Double jeopardy : women who kill in Victorian fiction /

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Murder fascinates readers, and when a woman murders, that fascination is compounded. The paradox of mother, lover, or wife as killer fills us with shock. A woman's violence is unexpected, unacceptable. Yet killing an abusive man can make her a cultural heroine. In Double Jeopardy, Virginia Morr...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Morris, Virginia B., 1942-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, ©1990.
Temas:
1800-1899
English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
Women murderers > Great Britain > Public opinion > History > 19th century.
Detective and mystery stories, English > History and criticism.
Women murderers in literature.
Trials (Murder) in literature.
Murder in literature.
Roman anglais > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Meurtrières > Grande-Bretagne > Opinion publique > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Meurtrières dans la littérature.
Procès (Meurtre) dans la littérature.
Meurtre dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Feminist.
Detective and mystery stories, English.
English fiction.
Great Britain.
Detective > and > mystery > stories, > English > History > and > criticism
English > fiction > 19th > century > History > and > criticism
Murder > in > literature
Trials > (Murder) > in > literature
Women > murderers > Public > opinion > Great > Britain > History > 19th > century
Women > murderers > in > literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Twice Guilty: The Double Jeopardy of Women Who Kill
  • The Worst of Women: Sisters in Crime
  • Women and Victorian Law: A Curious Chivalry
  • Charles Dickens: The Fiercest Impulses
  • George Eliot: My Heart Said, "Die!"
  • Mary Elizabeth Braddon: The Most Despicable of Her Sex
  • Wilkie Collins: No Deliverance but in Death
  • Thomas Hardy: A Desperate Remedy
  • Arthur Conan Doyle: Vengeance Is Hers.

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