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Routledge Purity and Contamination in Late Victorian Detective Fiction

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This literary analysis by Christopher Pittard examines detective fiction from the 1880s and 1890s through the lens of purity, exploring works by Fergus Hume, Arthur Conan Doyle, Grant Allen, L.T. Meade, and Marie Belloc Lowndes. Pittard demonstrates how material and moral purity functioned as central themes in detective fiction, simultaneously reflecting and satirising contemporary anxieties about degeneration. The study reveals how Victorian detective narratives equated criminality with dirt and disease, whilst guarding national boundaries against the perceived threat of the criminal foreigner. This scholarly work situates detective fiction within broader cultural discourses about contamination, social order, and national identity during a transformative period in literary history.

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Focuses on major Victorian detective fiction authors including Doyle, Hume, Allen, Meade, and Lowndes from the 1880s-1890s era.

Explores the relationship between purity as a literary theme and contemporary theories of social degeneration in Victorian culture.

Analyses how detective fiction portrayed criminality as moral and material contamination threatening national stability.

Examines the role of detective narratives in reinforcing national boundaries against foreign criminal elements.

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Brand: Routledge
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0754668134
Category: Books > Subjects > Poetry, Drama & Criticism > History & Criticism > Literary Theory & Movements
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 28 July 2011
Listed Since: 24 March 2011

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