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Framed uses fin de siècle British crime narrative to pose a highly interesting question: why do female criminal characters tend to be alluring and appealing while fictional male criminals of the era are unsympathetic or even grotesque? In this elegantly argued study, Elizabeth Carolyn Miller addresses this question, examining popular literary and cinematic culture from roughly 1880 to 1914 to shed light on an otherwise overlooked social and cultural type: the conspicuously glamorous New Woman criminal. In so doing, she breaks with the many Foucauldian studies of crime to emphasize the genuinely subversive aspects of these popular female figures. Drawing on a rich body of archival material, Miller argues that the New Woman Criminal exploited iconic elements of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century commodity culture, including cosmetics and clothing, to fashion an illicit identity that enabled her to subvert legal authority in both the public and the private spheres.
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- Consumption (Economics) in literature
- Detective and mystery films
- Detective and mystery films -- Great Britain -- History and criticism
- Detective and mystery stories
- Detective and mystery stories, English
- Detective and mystery stories, English -- History and criticism
- English -- History and criticism
- English Detective and mystery stories
- English fiction
- English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
- Female offenders in literature
- Feminism and literature
- Feminism and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
- History
- History and criticism
- Literature
- Literature & literary studies
- Literature and society
- Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
- Literature: history & criticism
- Terrorism in literature
- Women in popular culture
- Women in popular culture -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
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DOI: 10.3998/dcbooks.5899811.0001.001Editions
