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Detecting The Nation - Fictions Of Detection And The Imperial Venture

English · Hardback

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Klappentext 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! Reitz argues! nineteenth-century detective fiction helped transform the concept of an island kingdom to that of a sprawling empire; detective fiction placed imperialism at the center of English identity by recasting what had been the suspiciously un-English figure of the turn-of-the-century detective as the very embodiment of both English principles and imperial authority. She supports this claim through reading such masters of the genre as Godwin! Dickens! Collins! and Doyle in relation to narratives of crime and empire such as James Mill's History of British India! narratives about Thuggee! and selected writings of Kipling and Buchan. Detective fiction and writings more specifically related to the imperial project! such as political tracts and adventure stories! were inextricably interrelated during this time.

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Authors Caroline Reitz
Assisted by Donald E. Hall (Editor)
Publisher Ohio state university press
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 30.11.2004
 
EAN 9780814209820
ISBN 978-0-8142-0982-0
No. of pages 123
Dimensions 152 mm x 229 mm x 13 mm
Series Victorian Critical Interventio
Subject Fiction > Suspense

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