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  • The Detective's Companion in Crime Fiction

    A Study in Sidekicks

    Edited by Lucy Andrew, Samuel Saunders ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book aims to establish the position of the sidekick character in the crime and detective fiction literary genres. It re-evaluates the traditional view that the sidekick character in these genres is often overlooked as having a small, generic or singular role—either to act as the foil to the detective in order to accentuate their own abilities at solving crimes, or else to simply tell the ... Read more

    $152.09 USD

  • The Nineteenth Century Periodical Press and the Development of Detective Fiction

    by Samuel Saunders ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature
    This book re-imagines nineteenth-century detective fiction as a literary genre that was connected to, and nurtured by, contemporary periodical journalism. Whilst ‘detective fiction’ is almost universally-accepted to have originated in the nineteenth century, a variety of widely-accepted scholarly narratives of the genre’s evolution neglect to connect it with the development of a free press.The ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

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  • Jack the Ripper & the London Press

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    "Breaks new ground in its examination of the role of newspaper reporting during the police hunt for the first notorious serial killer."— Reviews in HistoryPress coverage of the 1888 mutilation murders attributed to Jack the Ripper was of necessity filled with gaps and silences, for the killer remained unknown and Victorian journalists had little experience reporting serial murders and sex crimes. ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to the Victorian Novel

    Edited by Deirdre David ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    In the Victorian period, the British novel reached a wide readership and played a major role in the shaping of national and individual identity. As we come to understand the ways the novel contributed to public opinion on religion, gender, sexuality and race, we continue to be entertained and enlightened by the works of Dickens, George Eliot, Thackeray, Trollope and many others. This second ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Crime Fiction

    Edited by Martin Priestman ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to Crime Fiction covers British and American crime fiction from the eighteenth century to the end of the twentieth. As well as discussing the detective fiction of writers like Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie and Raymond Chandler, it considers other kinds of fiction where crime plays a substantial part, such as the thriller and spy fiction. It also includes chapters on ... Read more

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  • The Ascent of the Detective

    Police Sleuths in Victorian and Edwardian England

    by Haia Shpayer-Makov ...
    The figure of the detective has long excited the imagination of the wider public, and the English police detective has been a special focus of attention in both print and visual media. Yet, while much has been written in the last three decades about the history of uniformed policemen in England, no similar work has focused on police detectives. The Ascent of the Detective redresses this by ... Read more

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  • Slumming

    Sexual and Social Politics in Victorian London

    by Seth Koven ...
    In the 1880s, fashionable Londoners left their elegant homes and clubs in Mayfair and Belgravia and crowded into omnibuses bound for midnight tours of the slums of East London. A new word burst into popular usage to describe these descents into the precincts of poverty to see how the poor lived: slumming. In this captivating book, Seth Koven paints a vivid portrait of the practitioners of slumming ... Read more

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  • A Man's Place

    Masculinity and the Middle-Class Home in Victorian England

    by Professor John Tosh ...
    Domesticity is generally treated as an aspect of women’s history. In this fascinating study of the nineteenth-century middle class, John Tosh shows how profoundly men’s lives were conditioned by the Victorian ideal and how they negotiated its many contradictions.Tosh begins by looking at the experience of boyhood, married life, sex, and fatherhood in the early decades of the nineteenth century ... Read more

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  • The English in Love

    The Intimate Story of an Emotional Revolution

    by Claire Langhamer ...
    Love has a history. It has meant different things to different people at different moments and has served different purposes. This book tells the story of love at a crucial point, a moment when the emotional landscape changed dramatically for large numbers of people. It is a story based in England, but informed by America, and covers the period from the end of the First World War until the break ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Sensation Fiction

    Edited by Andrew Mangham ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    In 1859 the popular novelist Wilkie Collins wrote of a ghostly woman, dressed from head to toe in white garments, laying her cold, thin hand on the shoulder of a young man as he walked home late one evening. His novel The Woman in White became hugely successful and popularised a style of writing that came to be known as sensation fiction. This Companion highlights the energy, the impact and the ... Read more

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  • Violent Victorians

    Popular entertainment in nineteenth-century London

    by Rosalind Crone ...
    By drawing attention to the wide range of gruesome, bloody and confronting amusements patronised by ordinary Londoners this book challenges our understanding of Victorian society and culture. From the turn of the nineteenth century, graphic, yet orderly, ‘re-enactments’ of high level violence flourished in travelling entertainments, penny broadsides, popular theatres, cheap instalment fiction and ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Culture

    Edited by Francis O'Gorman ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Culture
    The Victorian era produced artistic achievements, technological inventions and social developments that continue to shape how we live today. This Companion offers authoritative coverage of that period's culture and its contexts in a group of specially commissioned essays reflecting the current state of research in each particular field. Covering topics from music to politics, art to technology, ... Read more

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