Masculinity, Crime and Self-Defence in Victorian Literature

1. Introduction
Emelyne Godfrey

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

2. Foreign Crimes Hit British Shores
Emelyne Godfrey

3. The Ticket-of-Leave Man
Emelyne Godfrey

4. Tooled Up: The Pedestrian’s Armoury
Emelyne Godfrey

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

5. Threats from Above and Below
Emelyne Godfrey

6. Lord Chiltern and Mr Kennedy
Emelyne Godfrey

7. Phineas Redux
Emelyne Godfrey

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

8. Exotic Enemies
Emelyne Godfrey

9. Urban Knights in the London Streets
Emelyne Godfrey

10. Foreign Friends
Emelyne Godfrey

Keywords: Literature, Fiction, Twentieth-Century Literature, British and Irish Literature, Theatre History, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Gender Studies