Double Jeopardy: Women Who Kill in Victorian Fiction

By Virginia B. Morris

Book Overview

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

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813153581
• ISBN13: 9780813153582
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher