Narratives of women and murder in England, 1680-1760 : deadly plots / Kirsten T. Saxton.
2009
K5172 .S39 2009 (Mapit)
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Title
Narratives of women and murder in England, 1680-1760 : deadly plots / Kirsten T. Saxton.
Imprint
Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2009]
Copyright
©2009
Description
151 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Formatted Contents Note
Imagining murder in Augustan England : bodies of evidence; murder and gender
Moving violations : Aphra Behn, Delarivier Manley, and the romance of violence
"Interesting memoirs of the most notorious characters" : four eighteenth-century murderesses
"The confines of virtue and the frontiers of vice" : Daniel Defoe's Roxana and Henry Fielding's Amelia
"The prisoner at the bar" : Mary Blandy and Henry Fielding.
Moving violations : Aphra Behn, Delarivier Manley, and the romance of violence
"Interesting memoirs of the most notorious characters" : four eighteenth-century murderesses
"The confines of virtue and the frontiers of vice" : Daniel Defoe's Roxana and Henry Fielding's Amelia
"The prisoner at the bar" : Mary Blandy and Henry Fielding.
Summary
Arguing that the female criminal subject was central to the rise of the British novel, Kirsten T. Saxton provides insights into the complex ways in which categories of criminality, gender and fiction intersected in the long 18th century.
Note
Arguing that the female criminal subject was central to the rise of the British novel, Kirsten T. Saxton provides insights into the complex ways in which categories of criminality, gender and fiction intersected in the long 18th century.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 133-145) and index.
Location
STA
Call Number
K5172 .S39 2009
Language
English
ISBN
9780754663645 hardcover alkaline paper
0754663647 hardcover alkaline paper
9780754694526 ebook
0754694526 ebook
0754663647 hardcover alkaline paper
9780754694526 ebook
0754694526 ebook
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