Why did certain domestic murders fire the Victorian imagination? In her analysis of literary and cultural representations of this phenomenon across genres, Brid

Examining novels, trial transcripts, medico-legal documents, broadsides, criminal and scientific writing, illustration and, notably, Victorian melodrama, Bridge

This book illuminates the origins and development of violence as a social issue by examining a critical period in the evolution of attitudes towards violence. I

This book shows how interpretations of suicidal motives were guided by gendered expectations of behaviour, and that these expectations were constructed to creat

"The essays in this book set out to explore the ways in which Victorians used newspapers to identify the causes of bad behavior and its impacts, and the ways in