Tools

LEADER 03454cam a22004212 4500

001 ssj0002296417;

003 WaSeSS;

005 20260512090152.0;

006 m d ;

007 cr n ;

008 160119e20160315xxk es|||||||| 2|eng|d;

020 a| 9781443887281;

020 a| 1443887285 (Trade Cloth)c| USD 71.95 Retail Price (ISD)9| Active Record;

024 3 a| 9781443887281;

035 a| (WaSeSS)ssj0002296417;

037 b| 01436906;

040 a| BIP USd| WaSeSS;

049 a| EREEa| NEHH;

100 1 a| Bulamur, Naze| Author?| UNAUTHORIZED;

245 10 a| Victorian Murderessesh| [electronic resource]:b| The Politics of Female Violence;

260 a| Newcastle upon Tyne : b| Cambridge Scholars Publishera| Bristol : b| ISD [Distributor];

300 a| 185 p.;

506 a| Available only to authorized users.;

520 8 a| Annotationb| Victorian Murderesses investigates the politics of female violence in Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles (1891), George Eliot's Adam Bede (1859), Mary Braddon's Lady Audley's Secret (1862), and Florence Marryat's The Blood of the Vampire (1897). The controversial figure of the murderess in these four novels challenges the assumption that women are essentially nurturing and passive and that violence and aggression are exclusively male traits. By focusing on the representations of murder committed by women, this book demonstrates how legal and even medical discourses endorsed Victorian domestic ideology, as female criminals were often locked up in asylums and publicly executed without substantial evidence. While paying close attention to the social, economic, judicial, and political dynamics of Victorian England, this interdisciplinary study also tackles the question of female agency, as the novels simultaneously portray women as perpetrators of murder and excuse their socially unacceptable traits of anger and violence by invoking heredity and madness. Although the four novels tend to undercut female power and attribute violence to adulterous women, they are revolutionary enough to deploy female characters who rebel against male sovereignty and their domestic roles by stabbing their rapists and even killing their newborns. Victorian studies on gender and violence focus primarily on female victims of sexual harassment, and real and fictional male killers like Dracula and Jack the Ripper. Victorian Murderesses contributes to the field by investigating how literary representations of female violence counter the idealisation of women as angelic housewives.;

538 a| Mode of access: World Wide Web;

650 4 a| Gender Identity In Literature;

650 4 a| Women In Literature;

655 0 a| Electronic books.=| ^A491897;

856 40 z| Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Completeu| https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/eastcarolina/detail.action?docID=4535128;

949 a| CLICK ON WEB ADDRESSw| ASISh| JOYNER188;

949 a| CLICK ON WEB ADDRESSw| ASISh| HSL77;

949 a| CLICK ON WEB ADDRESSw| ASISh| JMUSIC60;

596 a| 1 3 4;

998 a| 6720826;

999 a| CLICK ON WEB ADDRESSw| ASISc| 1i| 6720826-1001l| JNETm| JOYNERr| Ys| Yt| JNESSBKu| 4/14/2026x| EBOOKz| JERESOURCE;

999 a| CLICK ON WEB ADDRESSw| ASISc| 1i| 6720826-2001l| HSLELECm| HSLr| Ys| Yt| HEBKu| 4/14/2026x| EBOOKz| HERESOURCE;

999 a| CLICK ON WEB ADDRESSw| ASISc| 1i| 6720826-3001l| MNETm| JMUSICr| Ys| Yt| MNESSBKu| 4/14/2026x| EBOOKz| JERESOURCE;

Victorian Murderesses The Politics of Female Violence

Author/creator	Bulamur, Naz Author
Format	Electronic
Publication Info	Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publisher Bristol : ISD [Distributor]
Description	185 p.
Supplemental Content	Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subjects	Gender Identity In Literature Women In Literature

Summary	Annotation Victorian Murderesses investigates the politics of female violence in Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles (1891), George Eliot's Adam Bede (1859), Mary Braddon's Lady Audley's Secret (1862), and Florence Marryat's The Blood of the Vampire (1897). The controversial figure of the murderess in these four novels challenges the assumption that women are essentially nurturing and passive and that violence and aggression are exclusively male traits. By focusing on the representations of murder committed by women, this book demonstrates how legal and even medical discourses endorsed Victorian domestic ideology, as female criminals were often locked up in asylums and publicly executed without substantial evidence. While paying close attention to the social, economic, judicial, and political dynamics of Victorian England, this interdisciplinary study also tackles the question of female agency, as the novels simultaneously portray women as perpetrators of murder and excuse their socially unacceptable traits of anger and violence by invoking heredity and madness. Although the four novels tend to undercut female power and attribute violence to adulterous women, they are revolutionary enough to deploy female characters who rebel against male sovereignty and their domestic roles by stabbing their rapists and even killing their newborns. Victorian studies on gender and violence focus primarily on female victims of sexual harassment, and real and fictional male killers like Dracula and Jack the Ripper. Victorian Murderesses contributes to the field by investigating how literary representations of female violence counter the idealisation of women as angelic housewives.
Access restriction	Available only to authorized users.
Technical details	Mode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/form	Electronic books.
ISBN	9781443887281
ISBN	1443887285 (Trade Cloth) Active Record
Standard identifier#	9781443887281
Stock number	01436906

Availability

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
	Electronic Resources	Access Content Online	✔ Available

Victorian Murderesses The Politics of Female Violence

Click here for more information about this title

Availability