Double Jeopardy: Women Who Kill in Victorian Fiction - Paperback

by Virginia B. Morris (Author)

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

Author Biography

Virginia Morris, associate professor of English at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York, writes about literature and crime.