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Double Jeopardy : Women Who Kill in Victorian Fiction /
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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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lexington, Ky. :
University Press of Kentucky,
1990.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 505 | 0 | |a 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. | |
| 520 | |a 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 Morris examines the complex roots of contemporary attitudes toward women who kill by providing a new perspective on violent women in Victorian literature. British novelists from Dickens to Hardy, in their characterizations, contradicted the traditional Western assumption that women criminals were ""unnatural. | ||
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