1st Edition
Domestic Murder in Nineteenth-Century England Literary and Cultural Representations
By Bridget Walsh
Copyright 2014
194 Pages
by
Routledge
194 Pages
by
Routledge
194 Pages
by
Routledge
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Why did certain domestic murders fire the Victorian imagination? In her analysis of literary and cultural representations of this phenomenon across genres, Bridget Walsh traces how the perception of the domestic murderer changed across the nineteenth century and suggests ways in which the public appetite for such crimes was representative of wider social concerns. She argues that the portrayal of... Read more
Introduction; Chapter 1 ‘The Demon in the Dock’; Chapter 2 ‘The Theatre of His Deep Dyed Guilt’; Chapter 3 ‘Mixed Motives and Mixed Morality’; Chapter 4 ‘Monsters of Affection’; Chapter 5 ‘Changed, indeed, but not transformed’; Chapter 101 Conclusion;
Biography
Bridget Walsh teaches English at Hills Road Sixth Form College, Cambridge, UK.
