Victorian Crime, Madness and Sensation (The Nineteenth by Andrew Maunder,Grace Moore

By Andrew Maunder,Grace Moore

starting with Victoria's enthronement and an exploration of sensationalist bills of assaults at the Queen, and finishing with the infamous case of a fin-de-siècle killer, Victorian Crime, insanity and Sensation throws new gentle on nineteenth-century attitudes towards crime and 'deviance'. The essays, which draw on either canonical and liminal texts, study the Victorian fascination with legal psychology and pathology, enticing with genuine lifestyles instances along fictional bills via writers as different as Ainsworth, Stevenson, and Stoker. one of the issues are moving definitions of illegal activity and the ways that discourses surrounding crime replaced in the course of the 19th century, the literal and social criminalization of specific intercourse acts, and the gendering of degeneration and madness. As involved as they have been with illegal activity, the Victorians have been both fascinated with fixing crime, and this assortment additionally specializes in the forces of legislations enforcement and nineteenth-century makes an attempt to "read" the felony physique as printed in Victorian crime fiction and reportage. individuals interact with the detective determine and his growing to be professionalization, whereas studying the position of technological know-how and know-how - either at domestic and within the Empire - in fixing cases.

Show description

Read or Download Victorian Crime, Madness and Sensation (The Nineteenth Century Series) PDF

Best literary victorian criticism books

Testimony and Advocacy in Victorian Law, Literature, and Theology (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture)

The eighteenth-century version of the felony trial - with its insistence that the defendant and the proof of a case may perhaps 'speak for themselves' - used to be deserted in 1836, while laws enabled barristers to handle the jury on behalf of prisoners charged with criminal. more and more, expert acts of interpretation have been noticeable as essential to in attaining a simply verdict, thereby silencing the prisoner and affecting the testimony given via eye witnesses at felony trials.

Constructing Crime: Discourse and Cultural Representations of Crime and 'Deviance'

Crime and criminals are a pervasive topic in all components of our tradition, together with media, journalism, movie and literature. This e-book explores how crime is developed and culturally represented via a number of components together with Spanish, English Language and Literature, tune, Criminology, Gender, legislations, Cultural and legal Justice stories.

Women's Authorship and Editorship in Victorian Culture: Sensational Strategies (Oxford English Monographs)

This publication considers the ways that ladies writers used the robust positions of writer and editor to accomplish conventions of gender and style within the Victorian interval. It examines Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Ellen wooden, and Florence Marryat's magazines (Belgravia, Argosy, and London Society respectively) along their sensation fiction to discover the collectively influential recommendations of authorship and editorship.

Emily Dickinson: A Celebration for Readers: Volume 3 (Routledge Library Editions: Victorian Poetry)

The point of interest of this name, first released in 1989, starts off with Dickinson’s poems themselves and the ways that we learn them. There are 3 readings for every of the six poems into consideration which are either complementary and provocative. the chosen poems exhibit Dickinson talking of herself in more and more wider relationships – to like, the skin global, dying and eternity – and are grouped jointly to bare her overlapping attitudes and emotions.

Extra resources for Victorian Crime, Madness and Sensation (The Nineteenth Century Series)

Example text

Download PDF sample

Rated 4.91 of 5 – based on 22 votes