Sex, crime and literature in Victorian England / Ian Ward.
"The Victorians worried about many things, prominent among their worries being the 'condition' of England and the 'question' of its women. Sex, Crime and Literature in Victorian England revisits these particular anxieties, concentrating more closely upon four 'crimes�...
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Oxford ; Portland, Oregon :
Hart Publishing,
2014.
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Table of Contents:
- Angels in the house
- At home with the Dombeys
- The disease of reading
- Pleasing and teaching
- One person in law
- Newcome v. Lord Highgate
- Carlyle v. Carlyle
- Oh reader!
- The sensational moment
- Fashionable crimes
- Mrs. Mellish's marriages
- The shame of Miss Braddon
- The precious quality of truthfulness
- Hardwicke's children
- R v. Sorrel
- The lost and the saved
- Walking the streets
- The murder of Nancy Sikes
- Contemplating Jenny
- Because men made the laws.