Violent Women and Sensation Fiction

1. Introduction
Andrew Mangham

2. Explosive Materials: Legal, Medical, and Journalistic Profiles of the Violent Woman
Andrew Mangham

3. ‘The Terrible Chemistry of Nature’: The Road Murder and Popular Fiction
Andrew Mangham

4. ‘Frail Erections’: Exploiting Violent Women in the Work of Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Andrew Mangham

5. ‘Nest-Building Apes’: Female Follies and Bourgeois Culture in the Novels of Mrs Henry Wood
Andrew Mangham

6. Hidden Shadows: Dangerous Women and Obscure Diseases in the Novels of Wilkie Collins
Andrew Mangham

7. Conclusion
Andrew Mangham

Keywords: Literature, Fiction, History of Britain and Ireland, Social History, Nineteenth-Century Literature, British and Irish Literature, Gender Studies