Purity and contamination in late Victorian detective fiction

Concentrating on works by authors such as Fergus Hume, Arthur Conan Doyle, Grant Allen, 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.

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adult
Length
medium · 272 pages

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