Detecting the Nation: Fictions of Detection and the Imperial Venture
(Part of the Victorian Critical Interventions Series)
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In Detecting the Nation, Reitz argues that detective fiction was essential both to public acceptance of the newly organized police force in early Victorian Britain and to acclimating the population to the larger venture of the British Empire. In doing so, Reitz challenges literary-historical assumptions that detective fiction is a minor domestic genre that reinforces a distinction between metropolitan center and imperial periphery. Rather,...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0814251358
ISBN13:9780814251355
Release Date:October 2004
Publisher:Ohio State University Press
Length:150 Pages
Weight:0.47 lbs.
Dimensions:0.4" x 6.4" x 9.0"
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