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Double Jeopardy Women Who Kill in Victorian Fiction

by [Morris, Virginia B.]

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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 cha

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  • University Press of Kentu Brand
  • Jul 15, 2014 Pub Date:
  • 9780813153582 ISBN-13:
  • 0813153581 ISBN-10:
  • 192.0 pages Paperback
  • English Language
  • 8.5 in * 0.45 in * 5.5 in Dimensions:
  • 1 lb Weight: