Overview: Challenges conventional narratives of the evolution of detective fiction.Examines the Englishness of much British detective fiction and its engagements with modernity as a response to technological, s.British Murder Mysteries, 1880-1965: Facts and Fictions. conceptualizes detective fiction as an archive, i.e., a trove of documents and sources to be used for historical interpretation. By framing the genre as a shifting set of values, definitions, and practices, the book historicizes the contested meanings of analytical categories like class, race, gender, nation, and empire that have
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