Masculinity, crime and self-defence in Victorian literature duelling with danger - Godfrey, Emelyne (Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013)
The garotting farce: armoured masculinity and its limits: 1851-67 -- Foreign crimes hit British shores -- The ticket-of-leave man -- Tooled up: the pedestrian's armoury -- Anthony Trollope: aggression punished and rewarded: 1867-87 -- Threats from above and below -- Lord Chiltern and Mr. Kennedy -- Phineas redux -- Physical flamboyance in the Sherlock Holmes canon: 1887-1914 -- Exotic enemies -- Urban knights in the London streets -- Foreign friends.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 160-193) and index.
Keywords: English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Masculinity in literature; Crime in literature