Purity and contamination in late Victorian detective fiction / Christopher Pittard.
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Pittard, Christopher. (författare)
- ISBN 9780754668138
- Publicerad: Farnham, Surrey : Ashgate, cop. 2011
- Engelska x, 259 p.
Innehållsförteckning
Ämnesord
Stäng
- 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)
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