Novel & the Police (Paper)

1. Auflage 1992
ISBN: 978-0-520-06746-2
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 209 mm, Gewicht: 272 g

Through a series of readings in the work of the decisive triumvirate of Victorian fiction, Dickens, Trollope and Wilkie Collins, Miller investigates the novel as an oblique form of social control.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Miller, D. A.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Europäische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword: "But Officer."

ONE
The Novel and the Police

TWO
From roman policier to roman-police:

Wilkie Collins's The Moonstone

THREE
Discipline in Different Voices:

Bureaucracy, Police, Family, and Bleak House

FOUR
The Novel as Usual:

Trollope's Barchester Towers

FIVE
Cage aux folles: Sen~ation and Gender
in Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White

SIX
Secret Subjects, Open Secrets

Index

Über Autor(innen)

D.A. Miller is Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley.