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Sex, Crime and Literature in Victorian England de Ian Ward

Sex, Crime and Literature in Victorian England

Autor Ian Ward
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 6 feb 2014
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.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781849462945
ISBN-10: 1849462941
Pagini: 160
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.39 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Hart Publishing
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Among the texts analysed are; the 1857 Matrimonial Causes Act, the 1864 Contagious Diseases Act, the novels of Dickens, Thackeray and Eliot, the works of Ellen Wood and Mary Braddon, and the poetry of Gabriel and Christina Rossetti.

Notă biografică

Ian Ward is Professor of Law at Newcastle University, and the author of a number of books on law, literature and history including 'Law and Literature: Possibilities and Perspectives' (Cambridge University Press, 1995), 'Shakespeare and the Legal Imagination' (Cambridge University Press, 1999), The English Constitution: Myths and Realities' (Hart Publishing, 2004), 'Law, Text, Terror' (Cambridge University Press, 2009) and most recently 'Law and the Brontes' (Palgrave, 2011).

Cuprins

Introduction: Dark ShapesAngels 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

Recenzii

Ward successfully provides a legal and legislative context to texts that both shaped and reflected the Victorian psyche...this book would be an excellent addition to an academic library as it has broad appeal to those studying law, literature, history, and gender studies.
...Ward's book provides law students and scholars alike not only with an interesting exploration of mid-Victorian fiction and legal reform, but also an insight into how literature may be used to challenge existing scripts and engender alternative ways of viewing and thinking about the law's attempt to regulate female sexuality.
Through the interweaving of issues of law, violence, sex, criminality and misogyny, Ward produces a book 'about' much more than a nation's salaciousness.

Descriere

By analysing relevant statues alongside the literature of the time, Ian Ward investigates Victorian anxieties about the 'condition' of its women, concentrating in particular on four 'crimes': adultery, bigamy, infanticide and prostitution.