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Languages : en
Pages : 426
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Taken at the Flood. A Novel. By the Author of “Lady Audley's Secret” [M. E. Braddon]. ... Stereotyped Edition
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Author: Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library, 1911-1971
Author: New York Public Library. Research LibrariesPublisher:
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 574
Book Description
XIX Century Fiction, Volume Two
Author: M. SadleirPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520349741
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1951. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived
Taken at the flood, by the author of 'Lady Audley's secret'.
Author: Mary Elizabeth BraddonPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 318
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American Book Publishing Record Cumulative, 1876-1949: Fiction. Juvenile fiction
Author: R.R. Bowker Company. Department of BibliographyPublisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1776
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Taken at the Flood
Author: Mary Elizabeth BraddonPublisher: Elibron Classics
ISBN: 9781402176579
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
This Elibron Classics title is a reprint of the original edition published by Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1874, Leipzig
The Routledge History of Literature in English
Author: Ronald CarterPublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415243179
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 598
Book Description
This is a guide to the main developments in the history of British and Irish literature, charting some of the main features of literary language development and highlighting key language topics.
Harper's Weekly
Author: John BonnerPublisher:
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Category : American periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 769
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Taken at the Flood
Author: Mary Elizabeth BraddonPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 416
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Double Jeopardy
Author: Virginia B. MorrisPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813163765
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
Murder fascinates readers, and when a woman murders, that fascination is compounded. The paradox of mother, lover, or wife as killer fills us with shock. A woman's violence is unexpected, unacceptable. Yet killing an abusive man can make her a cultural heroine. In Double Jeopardy, Virginia Morris examines the complex roots of contemporary attitudes toward women who kill by providing a new perspective on violent women in Victorian literature. British novelists from Dickens to Hardy, in their characterizations, contradicted the traditional Western assumption that women criminals were "unnatural." The strongest evidence of their view is that the novelists make the women's victims deserve their violent death. Yet the women characters who commit murder are punished because their sympathetic Victorian creators had internalized the cultural biases that expected women to be passive and subservient. Fictional women, like their real-life counterparts, were doubly guilty: in defying the law, they also defied their gender role. Because they were "unwomanly," they were thought worse than male criminals—more vicious and more incorrigible. At the same time, they often got special treatment from the police and the courts simply because they were women. These contradictory attitudes reveal the critical significance of gender in defining criminal behavior and in fixing punishments. Morris provides literary and historical background for the novelists' ideas about women killers and traces the evolving notion that abused or misused women were capable of using justifiable—if unforgivable—violence. She argues that the criminal women in Victorian literature epitomize the ambivalent position of women generally and the particular vulnerability of a deviant minority. Her book is a valuable resource for readers concerned with criminology, literature, and feminist studies.