Purity and contamination in late Victorian detective fiction
English Detective and mystery storiesPurity (Philosophy) in literatureLiterature and societyEnglish fictionHistory and criticismHistoryEnglish fiction, history and criticism, 19th centuryDetective and mystery stories, history and criticism
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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