Purity and contamination in late Victorian detective fiction [electronic resource] / Christopher Pittard.
By: Pittard, Christopher.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
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BookPublisher: Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, 2011Description: x, 259 p. : ill.Subject(s): Detective and mystery stories, English -- History and criticism | English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism | Purity (Philosophy) in literature | Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th centuryGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 823/.08720908 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view | Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | URL | Copy number | Status | Date due | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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