Masculinity, crime and self-defence in Victorian literature [electronic resource]

• 作者： Godfrey, Emelyne.
• 其他作者：
  • Palgrave Connect (Online service)
• 出版： New York : Palgrave Macmillan
• 叢書名： Crime Files
• 主題： English literature--19th century--History and criticism. , Masculinity in literature , Crime in literature , Electronic books.
• ISBN： 9780230294998 (electronic bk.) 、 0230294995 (electronic bk.)
• FIND@SFXID: CGU
• 資料類型: 電子書
• 內容註: Includes bibliographical references and index. The garotting farce: armoured masculinity and its limits: 1851-67 -- Foreign crimes hit British shores -- The ticket-of-leave man -- Tooled up: the pedestrian's armoury -- Anthony Trollope: aggression punished and rewarded: 1867-87 -- Threats from below and above -- Lord Chiltern and Mr. Kennedy -- Phineas redux -- Physical flamboyance in the Sherlock Holmes canon: 1887-1914 -- Exotic enemies -- Urban knights in the London streets -- Foreign friends.
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• 摘要註: This book considers crime fighting from the seldom explored viewpoint of the civilian city-goer. While rates of violent crime were generally declining, the period from the 'garotting' (strangling) panics of the 1850s to the First World War was characterized by a cultural fascination with physical threat and personal protection. As masculine violence became less tolerated, literary giants such as Anthony Trollope and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle began to ask themselves which methods the pedestrian should employ in this new age. From the pistol duel to the Whitechapel Murders, the self-defence scenario provided an avenue through which contrasting visions of masculinity could be explored. Here, not only literary sources but artefacts tell some bizarre stories. Why was the truncheon-like stick known as the 'life-preserver' so dangerous, and what exactly was Sherlock Holmes' mysterious skill, 'baritsu'?
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