Ambivalent Detective in Victorian Sensation Novels

Ambivalent Detective in Victorian Sensation Novels

Dickens, Braddon, and Collins

Yoon, Sarah

Taylor & Francis Ltd

04/2024

162

Dura

Inglês

9781032439631

15 a 20 dias

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Introduction: The ambivalent detective in Victorian sensation novels

1 Historical contexts: Police reform, marriage, empire, and the periodical press

2 Early detectives in Dickens's Household Words stories and Martin Chuzzlewit

3 The detective as villain and hero in Dickens's Bleak House

4 Detectives of the late 1850s and early 1860s: Russell, Collins, and Wood

5 Early detectives in Braddon's The Trail of the Serpent and The Black Band

6 Between gentleman and detective: Masculine negotiations in Lady Audley's Secret

7 Oriental mystique and spying servants in Braddon's Aurora Floyd

8 Female detectives: Ware (Forrester), Hayward, and Collins's The Law and the Lady

9 From ambivalence to rationality: Detection in Collins's Armadale and The Moonstone

10 After sensation novels: Imperial themes and detectives in Dickens's The Mystery of Edwin Drood and Doyle's stories

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Victorian Fiction;Sensation Novel;Detective;Mystery