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  • SHERLOCK'S SISTERS
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    SHERLOCK'S SISTERS
    JOSEPH A. KESTNER
    Sherlock's Sisters: The British Female Detective, 1864-1913 examines the fictional female detective in Victorian and Edwardian literature. This character, originating in the 1860s, configures a new representation of women in narratives of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This analysis explores female empowerment through professional unofficial or official detection, espe...

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  • MASCULINITIES IN BRITISH ADVENTURE FICTION, 1880–1915
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    MASCULINITIES IN BRITISH ADVENTURE FICTION, 1880–1915
    JOSEPH A. KESTNER
    Making use of recent masculinity theories, Joseph A. Kestner sheds new light on Victorian and Edwardian adventure fiction. Beginning with works published in the 1880s, when writers like H. Rider Haggard took inspiration from the First Boer War and the Zulu War, Kestner engages tales involving initiation and rites of passage, experiences with the non-Western Other, colonial cont...

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  • MASCULINITIES IN VICTORIAN PAINTING
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    MASCULINITIES IN VICTORIAN PAINTING
    JOSEPH A. KESTNER
    This fully illustrated study examines the construction of masculinity in culture based on an analysis of pictorial representations of the male in a wide range of contexts: social, historical, legal, literary, institutional, anthropological, educational, marital, imperial and aesthetic. Powerful images from the work of dozens of Victorian artists - from Leighton, Waterhouse, Bur...

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