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Terrill, Margaret C.

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Popular (non) fiction: The private detective in modern Britain.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Popular (non) fiction: The private detective in modern Britain./
Author:	Terrill, Margaret C.
Description:	113 p.
Notes:	Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 55-05.
Contained By:	Masters Abstracts International55-05(E).
Subject:	European history. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10111266
ISBN:	9781339744759

Popular (non) fiction: The private detective in modern Britain.
Terrill, Margaret C.

Popular (non) fiction: The private detective in modern Britain. - 113 p.

Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 55-05.

Thesis (M.A.)--Southern Methodist University, 2016.

Today's popular culture is inundated with adaptations of and references to Arthur Conan Doyle's stories about Great Britain's most famous detective, Sherlock Holmes. But the private detective's impact on the Victorian society into which he was born is much more pervasive and far reaching, then and now, than a visit to the little flat on Baker Street could possibly convey. Examining the history of the British private detective both in fiction and in life shows that the figure has been used as a metaphorical plumb-line for English self-conception since the Victorian era. This thesis looks at the British private detective from different points of view---the police, government officials, the public, literature, media, and detectives themselves---and shows how the figure can serve as a compelling historical lens through which to view changes in British culture in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

ISBN: 9781339744759Subjects--Topical Terms:

1972904
European history.

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