Gender, Crime, and Murder in Victorian England

The 'Black Ghost' of Bermondsey
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-26450-9
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 202 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 304 g

Reihe: Among the Victorians and Modernists

Gender, Crime, and Murder in Victorian England seeks to provide a comprehensive examination of the notorious Mannings' ‘Bermondsey murder’, and its wider implications in Victorian criminal narrative and popular culture. Exploring the ongoing textual afterlife of Maria Manning, including significant literary contributions by Charles Dickens through his characters Mademoiselle Hortense and Madame Defarge, this volume illuminates representations both echoed and challenged in mid-nineteenth-century conceptions of gender, sexuality, class, nationality, religion, and criminality. This volume also examines the five largely forgotten cases of female homicide from the same year and the imagined discourse perpetuated in fictional personifications. Utilising a wide breadth of literary and historical research, this volume provides readers with a thorough understanding of the various cultural implications of crime and gender in the Victorian period to be read, remembered, and reinterpreted today. Located simultaneously in the fields of feminist, historical, and literary criticism, this volume is invaluable to students of nineteenth-century literature and culture, and researchers with an interest in criminology and media culture.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kay, Anna

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Gattungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER ONE: The case of the Mannings

CHAPTER TWO: ‘The Bermondsey Murder’: Crime and Commerce

CHAPTER THREE: Popular representations of Maria Manning: Foreigner, Lady, Servant

CHAPTER FOUR: Frederick and Maria Manning: A Comparative Analysis

CHAPTER FIVE: Maria Manning’s Textual Afterlife

CONCLUSION

APPENDIX A

APPENDIX B

APPENDIX C

APPENDIX D

APPENDIX E

Über Autor(innen)

Anna Kay is a PhD graduate from the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne (MSt, University of Oxford). She is currently employed as a researcher at the University of Melbourne.