Detecting the Nation: Fictions of Detection and the Imperial Venture
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 assumpt...
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Ohio State University Press.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt1kk66jm |