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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Morris, Virginia B., 1942-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, 1990.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Women murderers in literature.
Trials (Murder) in literature.
Murder in literature.
English fiction.
Detective and mystery stories, English.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Feminist.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Meurtre dans la litterature.
Proces (Meurtre) dans la litterature.
Meurtrieres dans la litterature.
Meurtrieres > Grande-Bretagne > Opinion publique > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Roman anglais > 19e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Detective and mystery stories, English > History and criticism.
Women murderers > Great Britain > Public opinion > History > 19th century.
English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
Great Britain.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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