Crime and empire
Subtitle: the colony in nineteenth-century fictions of crime
By: Upamanyu Pablo Mukherjee.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 205
Subjects: English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.; Detective and mystery stories, English -- History and criticism.; Imperialism in literature.; Colonies in literature.; Crime in literature.; India -- In literature.; India -- Foreign public opinion, British.
Other titles: Colony in nineteenth-century fictions of crime
Description: In this work, Mukherjee examines a wide range of 19th-century British fictions about crime in India - from writers such as Wilkie Collins, Walter Scott, and Conan Doyle to historical parliamentary, and medical narratives.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-202) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The 'criminal' colony before the new police; title: Demanding reform : from Fielding to Peel; title: Resisting the new police; title: New policing, India and thuggee; title: Representing the Mutiny : 'criminal' India after 1857; title: Shifting images of the criminal.