Titlebook: Masculinity, Crime and Self-Defence in Victorian Literature; Duelling with Danger Emelyne Godfrey Book 2011 Palgrave Macmillan, a division

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Foreign Crimes Hit British Shoreseck and his face was covered. As he sat before a public audience, he would have felt the collar around his neck be screwed ever tighter and his windpipe eventually crushed. The lengthy article in the emerging American . in 1854 described the method of torture as ‘the hateful collar’, the ‘fatal screw’ or, as the . called it, an ‘infernal machine’.

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Introductionith lunges at him with his walking-stick, he catches him unawares in a manoeuvre called ‘Guard by Distance’. The audience is dazzled by a flash of scarlet; the lining of Keith’s coat shimmers flamboyantly as it catches the light. In another moment, Rob finds himself felled to the ground when his ankle is trapped in the crook of Keith’s Alpenstock.

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Phineas Reduxlling leads to a change of character. While Finn remains tenaciously moral in his political convictions, his aggressive actions almost result in the loss of his right to participate in the political world.

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Exotic Enemiesd explicitly links the violent man with the trope of degeneration. While he does not suggest methods by which ancestral retrogression can be prevented, Doyle shows that the curbing of violent acts figuratively protects society from the bloody effects of degeneration and disease.

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Tooled Up: The Pedestrian’s Armouryrturbed, while civilians demonstrated anxiety through an obsession with self-defence methods. Permeating a variety of periodicals and contemporary plays, the fascination with anti-garotting pursuits stemmed partly from a reluctance to rely on a seemingly incompetent police force. As Simpson’s articl

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Threats from Above and Belown the twentieth century that the Trollopian Michael Sadleir suggested the term ‘Palliser Novels’. This description was based on the fact that characters recur throughout these novels, most notably the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Plantagenet Palliser and his spirited wife, Lady Glencora. Reading the