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Chapter Three draws on newspaper coverage of Henry Fauntleroy's trial and execution for embezzlement, as well as Bulwer's and Dickens's fictional "white-collar" criminals, to illustrate how the transformations the figure of the rogue underwent during the early nineteenth century express the middle-class male's attempt to redefine masculine subjectivity. Chapter Four focuses on the attack on bloodsports by journalists and novelists as a largely unsuccessful attempt to supersede traditional aristocratic masculine attitudes towards violence. Finally, Chapter Five discusses masculine self-definition through the feminine by detailing the how the English legal system and authors represented maternal infanticide.","Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-16T22:27:37Z (GMT). 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