Christopher Pittard

Purity and Contamination in Late Victorian Detective Fiction

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Produktbeschreibung

Concentrating on works by authors such as Fergus Hume, Grant Allen, L.T. Meade and Marie Belloc Lowndes, Pittard explores the complex relation between the emergence of detective fiction in the 1880s and 1890s and the concept of purity. Situating his discussion within the context of Victorian periodicals, advertisements, medical explorations of criminality and social protest movements, Pittard challenges histories of fin-de-siècle detective fiction that have obscured the heterogeneity of this popular form.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. November 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 418g
• ISBN-13: 9781138276260
• ISBN-10: 113827626X
• Artikelnr.: 57053699

Autorenporträt

Christopher Pittard is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Portsmouth, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

(Mrs.) Hudson's Soap: Reading Purity in Detective Fiction; Chapter 1 'A
strange, inverted world': Sensation and Social Purity in The Mystery of a
Hansom Cab; Chapter 2 'Cheap, Healthful Literature': The Strand Magazine,
Fictions of Crime, and Purified Reading Communities; Chapter 3 A Criminal
Man of Many Faces: Grant Allen and the Delinquent Body; Chapter 4 Studies
in Scarlet: Detection, Medicine, Vivisection; Chapter 5 Tales of the
Unintended: Reinventing Victorian Criminality; Chapter 101 The Eugenics of
Genre;