This study shows how she sought to reconcile her attachment to the Victorian past with her recognition of a new society that undermined established order and in doing so gave more opportunities to women, confused class-boundaries, extended tolerance,...
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This study shows how she sought to reconcile her attachment to the Victorian past with her recognition of a new society that undermined established order and in doing so gave more opportunities to women, confused class-boundaries, extended tolerance, allowed the cult of pleasure and self-assertion and revealed the ambiguities of respectability
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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 2 The Spectacle of Death; 3 The Wrong Angle; 4 Actors and Imposters; 5 Human Nature; 6 The Self and the Other; 7 Change and Decay; 8 The War of Good and Evil; 9 Clues; 10 The Myth of Crime; 11 The Real and the Unreal; 12 The Culture; 13 Curtain: A Conclusion; Bibliography; Index