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ISBN 10: 0230273459
ISBN 13: 978-0230273450
Author: Godfrey 

Now in paperback, this book 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 works of popular playwrights and novelists, examining changing ideals of urban, middle-class heroism.

Masculinity, Crime and Self-Defence in Victorian Literature 1st Table of contents:

Part I: The Garotting Farce: Armoured Masculinity and its Limits: 1851–67

1 Foreign Crimes Hit British Shores

The 'garotta' and the garotte

Thuggee

2 The Ticket-of-Leave Man

Contagion of crime

Garotters and their prey

3 Tooled Up: The Pedestrian's Armoury

'A danger to their owners'

Urban heroes?

Part II: Anthony Trollope: Aggression Punished and Rewarded: 1867–87

4 Threats from Above and Below

Fighting for the franchise

The duel

5 Lord Chiltern and Mr Kennedy

Thrill of the chase: masculinities at play

Streetwise hero saves government minister

6 Phineas Redux

Phineas returned: not quite back in the saddle?

The murderous life-preserver

Leaps in the dark

Part III: Physical Flamboyance in the Holmes Canon: 1887–1914

7 Exotic Enemies

Obstructing the flow of violence

Snakes in the grass

'Deep, savage lines' and 'wicked-looking revolvers'

8 Urban Knights in the London Streets

'A straight left'

The adventure of the mystery of 'Bar[t]itsu'

Exploring the 'criminal jungle'

9 Foreign Friends

Sadakazu Uyenishi: 'jump into space'

Jujitsu, abroad and beyond

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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