Double Jeopardy: Women Who Kill in Victorian Fiction

By Virginia B. Morris

Book Overview

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,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813117518
• ISBN13: 9780813117515
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Univ Pr of Kentucky
• Length: 182 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.8" x 6.0"