Detecting the Nation : Fictions of Detection and the Imperial Venture /
In Detecting the Nation Reitz argues that detective fiction was essential both to public acceptance of the newly organized police force in early Victorian Britain and to acclimating the population to the larger venture of the British Empire. In doing so, Reitz challenges literary-historical assumpti...
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| Lingua: | inglese |
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Columbus :
Ohio State University Press,
2004.
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| Serie: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Sommario:
- Introduction : imperial detection
- Bad cop/good cop : Godwin, Mill, and the imperial origins of the English detective
- Thuggee and the "discovery" of the English detective
- Making an English virtue of necessity : Dickens and Collins bring it home
- Separated at birth : Doyle, Kipling, and the partition of English detective fiction
- Conclusion.