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1 online resource (193 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Introduction: Twice Guilty: The Double Jeopardy of Women Who Kill -- The Worst of Women: Sisters in Crime -- Women and Victorian Law: A Curious Chivalry -- Charles Dickens: The Fiercest Impulses -- George Eliot: My Heart Said, "Die!" -- Mary Elizabeth Braddon: The Most Despicable of Her Sex -- Wilkie Collins: No Deliverance but in Death -- Thomas Hardy: A Desperate Remedy -- Arthur Conan Doyle: Vengeance Is Hers. |
| Summary |
Murder fascinates readers, and when a woman murders, that fascination is compounded. The paradox of mother, lover, or wife as killer fills us with shock. A woman's violence is unexpected, unacceptable. Yet killing an abusive man can make her a cultural heroine. In Double Jeopardy, Virginia Morris examines the complex roots of contemporary attitudes toward women who kill by providing a new perspective on violent women in Victorian literature. British novelists from Dickens to Hardy, in their characterizations, contradicted the traditional Western assumption that women criminals were ""unnatural. |
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English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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English fiction. |
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19th century |
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Women murderers -- Great Britain -- Public opinion -- History -- 19th century.
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Women murderers. |
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Great Britain. |
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Public opinion. |
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History. |
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Detective and mystery stories, English -- History and criticism.
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Detective and mystery stories, English. |
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Women murderers in literature.
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Women murderers in literature. |
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Trials (Murder) in literature.
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Trials (Murder) in literature. |
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Murder in literature.
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Murder in literature. |
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Detective and mystery stories, English History and criticism |
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English fiction 19th century History and criticism |
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Murder in literature |
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Trials (Murder) in literature |
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Women murderers Public opinion Great Britain History 19th century |
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Women murderers in literature |
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Electronic books.
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Print version: Morris, Virginia B., 1942- Double jeopardy. Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, ©1990 0813117518 (DLC) 90032879 (OCoLC)21195051 |
| ISBN |
9780813163765 electronic book |
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0813163765 electronic book |
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0813153581 |
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9780813153582 |
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