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  • Gender, Crime, and Murder in Victorian England: The ‘Black Ghost’ of Bermondsey

    Gender, Crime, and Murder in Victorian England by Kay, Anna;

    The ‘Black Ghost’ of Bermondsey

    Series: Among the Victorians and Modernists;

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    Product details:

    • Edition number 1
    • Publisher Routledge
    • Date of Publication 25 September 2023

    • ISBN 9781032264493
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages202 pages
    • Size 229x152 mm
    • Weight 453 g
    • Language English
    • Illustrations 29 Illustrations, black & white; 29 Halftones, black & white
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    Short description:

    Gender, Crime, and Murder in Victorian England seeks to provide a comprehensive examination of the notorious Manning’s ‘Bermondsey murder’, and its wider implications in Victorian criminal narrative and popular culture.

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    Long description:

    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.

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    Table of Contents:

    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


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