"Unsuspicious and Innocent of Wrong": Reading the Mount Rennie Outrage As a Romance of Victorian Gender and Politics

Authors

  • Juliet Peers

Keywords:

sexual violence, rape, Mount Rennie Outrage, Australian history, tabloid, journalism, gender, Australian periodicals

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Published

2020-06-11

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Peers, J. (2020). "Unsuspicious and Innocent of Wrong": Reading the Mount Rennie Outrage As a Romance of Victorian Gender and Politics. Australasian Journal of Victorian Studies, 3(2), 1-19. https://openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/AJVS/article/view/13704