Purity and contamination in late Victorian detective fiction
By: Christopher Pittard
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 259
ISBN-13: 9780754668138
Subjects: English Detective and mystery stories; Purity (Philosophy) in literature; Literature and society; English fiction; History and criticism; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-251) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: (Mrs) Hudson's soap: reading purity in detective fiction; title: A strange inverted world": sensation and social purity in the mystery of a Hansom cab; title: "Cheap, healthful literature": the Strand magazine, purified reading communities, and fictions of crime; title: A criminal man of many faces: Grant Allen and the delinquent body; title: Studies in Scarlet: medicine, detection, vivisection; title: Tales of the unintended: reinventing Victorian criminality; title: Conclusion: the eugenics of genre.