Violent Women and Sensation Fiction
A. Mangham
Palgrave Macmillan, 2007
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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.
- ISBN-13
- 9780230545212
- ISBN-10
- 0230545211
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Year
- 2007
- Publication date
- 2007-08-16
- Pages
- 247
- Dimensions
- 220x149x20
- Weight
- 448