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Sex, Crime and Literature in Victorian England, by Ian Ward. Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2014, vi + 154pp (£30.00 hardback). ISBN: 978-1-84946-294-5.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Anna Carline*
Affiliation:
University of Leicester
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References

1. Ward, I Sex, Crime and Literature in Victorian England (Oxford; Hart Publishing, 2014) p 28.Google Scholar

2. Ibid, p 3

3. Ibid.

4. Ibid, p 4

5. Ibid, p 4

6. Ibid, p 16

7. Ibid, p 17

8. Moral and political tendency of the modern novels’ (1842) 11 Church of England Q Rev 287288.Google Scholar

9. Ward, above 1, p 17

10. Ibid.

11. Ibid, p 117

12. Ibid, p 24

13. Ibid, pp 24–25.

14. Ibid, p 25

15. Ibid.

16. Ibid, p 27

17. Ibid.

18. Ibid.

19. Ibid, p 26

20. Ibid, p 28

21. Ibid, p 26

22. Ibid.

23. Nussbaum, M Poetic Justice (Boston: Beacon Press, 1995) pp 118119.Google Scholar

24. Ward, above 1, p 27

25. Chedzoy, A A Scandalous Woman: The Story of Caroline Norton (London: Allison and Busby, 1992)Google Scholar; Craig, R The Narratives of Caroline Norton (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2009).CrossRefGoogle Scholar

26. Ward, above 1, p 56

27. Ibid, p 83

28. Ibid, pp 84–85.

29. Ibid, p 115

30. Ibid, p 144

31. Ibid, p 135

32. Ibid, p 139

33. Policing and Crime Act 2009, s 17.