Abstract
A poem that appeared in Punch in December 1862 entitled ‘The Song of the Garotter’ expresses the way in which garotting was equated with underhand thuggee:
H, meet me by moonlight alone,
And then I will give you the hug,
With my arm round your neck tightly thrown,
I’m as up to the work as a Thug.
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Notes
Anne McClintock, Imperial Leather: Race, Gender and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest (London: Routledge, 1995), pp. 71–2.
Samuel Smiles, Self-Help: With Illustrations of Conduct and Perseverance (London: John Murray, 1958), p. 50.
R.W. Connell, Masculinities (Cambridge: Polity, 2006), p. 100.
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Godfrey, E. (2011). The Ticket-of-Leave Man. In: Masculinity, Crime and Self-Defence in Victorian Literature. Crime Files Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230294998_3
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