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Victorian Murder: Complex Problems and Academic Interdisciplinarity
Author(s) -
Tromp Marlene
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
literature compass
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.158
H-Index - 4
ISSN - 1741-4113
DOI - 10.1111/lic3.12071
Subject(s) - scholarship , discipline , variety (cybernetics) , period (music) , subject (documents) , focus (optics) , sociology , criminology , psychology , history , social science , aesthetics , art , law , political science , library science , physics , optics , artificial intelligence , computer science
Murder has horrified and fascinated us for centuries. Victorian murder not only marked the period but also has been the subject of countless contemporary movies, books, and plays, as well as a focus of academic study across a range of subfields, including gender studies, urban studies, genre studies, historical studies, and criminological studies. In some cases, particular murderers or their methodologies have been the focus. While some scholarship has crossed disciplinary lines, few studies have done so in a robust way. Scholarship on murder would have greater intellectual complexity, nuance, and efficacy if it traversed disciplinary boundaries and drew on the work in a greater variety of subfields.