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Purity and Contamination in Late Victorian Detective Fiction

Autor Christopher Pittard
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 28 iul 2011
Concentrating on works by authors such as Fergus Hume, Arthur Conan Doyle, Grant Allen, L.T. Meade, and Marie Belloc Lowndes, Christopher Pittard explores the complex relation between the emergence of detective fictions in the 1880s and 1890s and the concept of purity. The centrality of material and moral purity as a theme of the genre, Pittard argues, both reflected and satirised a contemporary discourse of degeneration in which criminality was equated with dirt and disease and where national boundaries were guarded against the threat of the criminal foreigner. Situating his discussion within the ideologies underpinning George Newnes's Strand Magazine as well as a wide range of nonfiction texts, Pittard demonstrates that the genre was a response to the seductive and impure delights associated with sensation and gothic novels. Further, Pittard suggests that criticism of detective fiction has in turn become obsessed with the idea of purity, thus illustrating how a genre concerned with policing the impure itself became subject to the same fear of contamination. Contributing to the richness of Pittard's project are his discussions of the convergence of medical discourse and detective fiction in the 1890s, including the way social protest movements like the antivivisectionist campaigns and medical explorations of criminality raised questions related to moral purity.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780754668138
ISBN-10: 0754668134
Pagini: 272
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

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

Recenzii

'... much to relish in a work that is both theoretically informed and rigorously grounded in primary research.' Times Literary Supplement '[This] extremely readable, wide-ranging text explores late-Victorian detective fiction’s engagement with nineteenth-century issues such as poverty, prostitution, vivisection, criminal anthropology, eugenics, medicine, and with criminality as moral pollution, atavism and disease... Pittard concludes that although the late-Victorian detectives are now largely forgotten, their influence remains; his masterly revisioning of their narratives, though, recognises the importance of these agents of purity and restores them to their proper place.' Review of English Studies '... this book is both a valuable account of its own period and a strong basis for further studies of the processes of detection, whether factual or fictional.' Literature and History

Cuprins

(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;

Descriere

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.