O’Brien’s Crime in Verse takes up this approach to Victorian murder, offering an original focus on the ways that poetry participates in, and unsettles, social concerns about classed responses to crime, legal and medical theories of criminality and responsibility, and anxieties about gender and crime in the domestic sphere. Over the last several years, however, the emphasis of Victorian crime studies has shifted away from considerations of the monolithic operations of power to a more carefully historicized interest in the complex negotiations between subjects, the state, and modes of representation. Until recently, such work was indebted largely to the theoretical work of Michel Foucault, particularly to insights developed in Discipline and Punish (1975). Over the last twenty-five years studies of crime, punishment, and social discipline have occupied a central position in scholarship of the Victorian era.
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