Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Note on the Text and Abbreviations; Part I: The Garotting Farce: Armoured Masculinity and its Limits: 1851-67; 1 Foreign Crimes Hit British Shores; 2 The Ticket-of-Leave Man; 3 Tooled Up: The Pedestrian's Armoury; Part II: Anthony Trollope: Aggression Punished and Rewarded: 1867-87; 4 Threats from Above and Below; 5 Lord Chiltern and Mr Kennedy; 6 Phineas Redux; Part III: Physical Flamboyance in the Holmes Canon: 1887-1914; 7 Exotic Enemies; 8 Urban Knights in the London Streets; 9 Foreign Friends; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary
This book considers crime fighting from the perspective of the civilian city-goer, from the mid-Victorian garotting panics to 1914. It charts the shift from the use of 'body armour' to the adoption of exotic martial arts through the works of popular playwrights and novelists, examining changing ideals of urban, middle-class heroism
