Violent women and sensation fiction : crime, medicine and Victorian popular culture /
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| Author / Creator: | Mangham, Andrew, 1979- |
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| Imprint: | Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. |
| Description: | x, 247 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6624953 |
Table of Contents:
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1. Explosive Materials: Legal, Medical, and Journalistic Profiles of the Violent Woman
- The body in the kitchen
- Young women and adolescents: 'The mad fury of that lovely being'
- Motherhood I. Maternal maniacs
- Motherhood II. Morbid influences
- Female old age: Sick fancies
- 2. 'The Terrible Chemistry of Nature': The Road Murder and Popular Fiction
- 'The fussy activity about the nightdress of a school girl'
- Popular fictional representations
- 'A tragedy of blood and tears': Aurora Floyd
- 'Smooth as polished crystal': St. Martin's Eve
- 'Detective fever': The Moonstone
- 3. 'Frail Erections': Exploiting Violent Women in the Work of Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Poking the embers: The hysterical violence of young women
- Unmotherly glances and sickly sentimentality: Dangerous maternities
- Uncultivated waste: Post-menopausal women
- 4. 'Nest-Building Apes': Female Follies and Bourgeois Culture in the Novels of Mrs Henry Wood
- A man of two wives/a man of two lives: Divided masculinity and domestic ideology in East Lynne (1862)
- 'Looking back': The mother's influence in Danesbury House (1860) and Mrs Halliburton's Troubles (1862)
- 'The matrimonial lottery': Choosing a good wife in Lady Adelaide's Oath (1867)
- 'Evil heritages': Superstition and morbid heredity in The Shadow of Ashlydyat (1864)
- A moth in the upturned tumbler: The control and display of passion in Verner's Pride (1863)
- 5. Hidden Shadows: Dangerous Women and Obscure Diseases in the Novels of Wilkie Collins
- 'What could I do?': The Woman in White (1860)
- 'In a glass darkly': No Name (1862)
- 'The shadow of a woman': Armadale (1866)
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
