Narratives of Women and Murder in England, 1680-1760

Narratives of Women and Murder in England, 1680-1760

Deadly Plots

by Kirsten T. Saxton

151 pages· 2009· ISBN 9780754663645
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Arguing for the centrality of the female criminal subject to the rise of the British novel, Kirsten Saxton compares representations of homicidal women in legal documents with those in the early novels of Behn, Manley, Defoe, and Fielding. She demonstrates that legal narratives informed the novel's evolution and fictional texts shaped the development of legal narratives, and suggests that Augustan configurations of the murderess continue to influence our legal and social conceptions of femininity.

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