Purity and contamination in late Victorian detective fiction / Christopher Pittard.

• Introduction: (Mrs) Hudson's soap: reading purity in detective fiction -- A strange inverted world": sensation and social purity in the mystery of a Hansom cab -- "Cheap, healthful literature": the Strand magazine, purified reading communities, and fictions of crime -- A criminal man of many faces: Grant Allen and the delinquent body -- Studies in Scarlet: medicine, detection, vivisection -- Tales of the unintended: reinventing Victorian criminality -- Conclusion: the eugenics of genre.

Ämnesord

Purity (Philosophy) in literature.  (LCSH)

Detective and mystery stories, English  -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

English fiction  -- 19th century -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

Literature and society  -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century. (LCSH)

Deckare  -- Storbritannien -- historia (sao)

Kriminallitteratur  -- Storbritannien -- historia (sao)

Engelsk litteratur  -- 1900-talet -- historia (sao)

Klassifikation

PR878.D4 (LCC)

823/.08720908 (DDC)