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Sex, Crime and Literature in Victorian England (eBook)


ISBN13: 9781782253709
Published: February 2014
Publisher: Hart Publishing
Country of Publication: UK
Format: eBook (ePub)
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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' which generated especial concern amongst contemporaries: adultery, bigamy, infanticide and prostitution.

Each engaged questions of sexuality and its regulation, legal, moral and cultural, for which reason each attracted the considerable interest not just of lawyers and parliamentarians, but also novelists and poets and perhaps most importantly those who, in ever-larger numbers, liked to pass their leisure hours reading about sex and crime.

Alongside statutes such as the 1857 Matrimonial Causes Act and the 1864 Contagious Diseases Act, Sex Crime and Literature in Victorian England contemplates those texts which shaped Victorian attitudes towards England's 'condition' and the 'question' of its women - the novels of Dickens, Thackeray and Eliot, the works of sensationalists such as Ellen Wood and Mary Braddon, and the poetry of Gabriel and Christina Rossetti.

Sex, Crime and Literature in Victorian England is a richly contextual commentary on a critical period in the evolution of modern legal and cultural attitudes to the relation of crime, sexuality and the family.

Subjects:
Legal History, eBooks
Contents:
Introduction: Dark Shapes
Angels in the House
At Home with the Dombeys
The Disease of Reading
Pleasing and Teaching

1. Criminal Conversations
One Person in Law
Newcome v Lord Highgate
Carlyle v Carlyle
Oh Reader!

2. Fashionable Crimes
The Sensational Moment
Fashionable Crimes
Mrs Mellish's Marriages
The Shame of Miss Braddon

3. Unnatural Mothers
The Precious Quality of Truthfulness
Hardwicke's Children
R v Sorrel
The Lost and the Saved

4. Fallen Angels
Walking the Streets
The Murder of Nancy Sikes
Contemplating Jenny
Because Men Made the Laws