Violent Women and Sensation Fiction: Crime, Medicine and Victorian Popular Culture
Description
This book explores ideas of violent femininity across generic and disciplinary boundaries during the nineteenth century. It aims to highlight how medical, legal and literary narratives shared notions of the volatile nature of women. Mangham traces intersections between notorious legal trials, theories of female insanity, and sensation novels.
Keywords
VIOLENCE IN LITERATUREWOMEN IN LITERATUREENGLISH FICTION_HISTORY AND CRITICISM_19TH CENTURYLAW AND LITERATURE
2007Book
Author(s)Andrew Mangham
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan
ISBN9780230545212
LanguageEnglish
