Research Catalog

Title

Victorian crime, madness and sensation / [edited by] Andrew Maunder, Grace Moore.

Publication

Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2004.

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Additional Authors

• Maunder, Andrew.
• Moore, Grace, 1974-

Description

xi, 259 p : ill.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

The nineteenth century series

Uniform Title

Nineteenth century (Aldershot, England)

Subjects

• Great Britain > Social conditions > 19th century > Historiography
• Mentally ill in literature
• Crime in literature
• Criminals in literature
• Sensationalism in literature
• Crime > Great Britain > History > 19th century > Historiography
• Great Britain > History > Victoria, 1837-1901 > Historiography
• English prose literature > 19th century > History and criticism
• English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism
• Detective and mystery stories, English > History and criticism

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-247) and index.

Contents

Regicide and reginamania : G.W.M. Reynolds and the mysteries of London / John Plunkett -- The making of a master criminal : the 'chief of the thugs' in Victorian writings on crime / Máire ní Fhlathúin -- Black markets and cadaverous pies : the corpse, urban trade and industrial consumption in The penny blood / Sally Powell -- "Stepchildren of nature" : East Lynne and the spectre of female degeneracy, 1860-1861 / Andrew Maunder -- Murder, gender, and popular fiction by women in the 1860s : Braddon, Oliphant, Yonge / June Sturrock -- Anatomy of a "nine days' wonder" : sensational journalism in the decade of sensation / Dallas Liddle -- The inside story : crime, convicts and careers for women / Barbara Onslow -- "The truth of midnight" and "the truth of noonday" : sensation and madness in James Thomson's The city of dreadful night / Dafydd Moore -- Puffed papers and broken promises : white-collar crime and literary justice in the way we live now / Karen Odden -- Something to Hyde : the "strange preference" of Henry Jekyll" / Grace Moore -- The novelization of the Dreyfus Affair : femininity and sensation in fin-de-siècle France / Christopher E. Forth -- "Furious passions of the Celtic race" : Ireland, madness and Wilkie Collins's Blind love / Maria K. Bachman -- Time's hand : fingerprints, empire, and Victorian narratives of crime / Gita Panjabi Trelease -- Vamping the children : the bloofer lady, the London minotaur and child-victimization in late-nineteenth-century England / Leslie Ann Minot -- Ballad of a demon barber : the criminal career of George Chapman / Nicholas Freeman.

Call Number

JFE 05-2859

ISBN

0754640604 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2004004237

OCLC

54500231

Title

Victorian crime, madness and sensation / [edited by] Andrew Maunder, Grace Moore.

Imprint

Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2004.

Series

The nineteenth century series

Nineteenth century (Aldershot, England)

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-247) and index.

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Added Author

Maunder, Andrew.

Moore, Grace, 1974-

Research Call Number

JFE 05-2859