株式会社極東書店トップ ＞ 商品一覧 ＞ The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective.
商品詳細
The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective.
・ISBN 978-0-300-28660-1 paper US$ 20.00
￥4,686.- (税込) ※（※）価格はご注文時の参考価格となります。
納品価格につきましては書籍の入荷時点で確定となります。
版元の原価改定、外国為替の変動等により異なる場合がございますので、予めご了承下さい。
| 著者・編者 | Lodge, Sara, |
|---|---|
| 出版社 | (Yale University Press, US) |
| 出版年月 | 2025 |
| ページ数 | 384 pp. |
| 言語 | ENG |
| ニュース番号 | ＜A04-2792＞ |
解説
A revelatory history of the women who brought Victorian criminals to account-and how they became a cultural sensation
Shortlisted for The Wolfson History Prize 2025
From Wilkie Collins to the adventures of Sherlock Holmes, the traditional image of the Victorian detective is male. Few people realise that women detectives successfully investigated Victorian Britain, working both with the police and for private agencies, which they sometimes managed themselves.
Sara Lodge recovers these forgotten women's lives. She also reveals the sensational role played by the fantasy female detective in Victorian melodrama and popular fiction, enthralling a public who relished the spectacle of a cross-dressing, fist-swinging heroine who got the better of love rats, burglars, and murderers alike.
How did the morally ambiguous work of real women detectives, sometimes paid to betray their fellow women, compare with the exploits of their fictional counterparts, who always save the day? Lodge's book takes us into the murky underworld of Victorian society on both sides of the Atlantic, revealing the female detective as both an unacknowledged labourer and a feminist icon.