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Detecting the nation : fictions of detection and the imperial venture / Caroline Reitz.
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Reitz, Caroline.
- Series:
- Victorian critical interventions
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Detective and mystery stories, English--History and criticism.
- Detective and mystery stories, English.
- English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
- English fiction.
- Colonies.
- Great Britain--Colonies--In literature.
- Great Britain.
- Imperialism in literature.
- Colonies in literature.
- Police in literature.
- Physical Description:
- xxv, 123 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Columbus : Ohio State University Press, [2004]
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 109-118) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0814209823
- 0814251358
- 0814290566
- OCLC:
- 55066989
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