Masculinity, Crime and Self-Defence in Victorian Literature

This book, now in paperback, considers crime fighting from the perspective of the civilian city-goer, from the mid-Victorian garotting panics to 1914. It charts the shift from the use of body armour to the adoption of exotic martial arts through the work of popular playwrights and novelists, examini [...]
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This book, now in paperback, considers crime fighting from the perspective of the civilian city-goer, from the mid-Victorian garotting panics to 1914. It charts the shift from the use of body armour to the adoption of exotic martial arts through the work of popular playwrights and novelists, examining changing ideals of urban middle-class heroism.