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EN2E7/EN3E7 Crime Fiction, Nation and Empire: Britain 1850-1947

IF YOU TOOK THE MODULE 2022-23 and need information for re-sits then please click on the corresponding tab above for assessment information.

Information below pertains to 2023-24.

Please note that it will be IMPERATIVE for you to try and do some reading over the summer or you will struggle during the first few weeks as the first texts are heavy and long.


Contact details:

Convenor and Tutor (Tuesday seminars):
Dr Jen Baker (J.Baker.5@warwick.ac.uk)

Office Hours:
Tues 3-4pm and Thurs 11-12. Sign-up here: Dr Baker Office Hours sign-up 2023-24.docx

Co-Tutor (Friday seminars):
Alex Round (Alex.Round@warwick.ac.uk)
Office Hour: 9:45-10:45 (FAB6.06) Click HERELink opens in a new window to sign-up.

Unless there are exceptional circumstances you should contact your seminar tutor directly and use their office hours for any queries and to discuss assignments.

Contact Hours:

No Lectures.

1x 90 min seminar per week in terms 1 and 2.

Sidney Paget Drawing Of Sherlock Holmes In Silver Blaze 11" x 14" - Picture 1 of 1

Overview

This module will help the students reach an understanding of the central importance of the practices and discourses of crime, law, order and policing to the formation of British national and imperial power/identities from 1850-1947 alongside the development of the Crime Fiction genre in Britain. By focusing on a number of popular narratives of crime, the module will invite an analysis of how they both affirmed and subverted the circuits of British national (ist) and imperial (ist) power, via ideas such as "detective hero and models of masculinity", the "female detective and gender ideologies", sidekicks and narrative perspective, techniques of secret and suspense, material clues, villainy, class hierarchies, racial and ethnic Othering, pseudo-sciences and forensic developments, and more. Students will be introduced to a range of primary, critical and historical/archival materials. They will have to analyze and assess theories and narratives of nation, empire, class, ethnicity to trace the traffic between literature, law and power at specific historical moments in British and world history.

Learning Outcomes

  • Demonstrate coherent and detailed knowledge of selected texts and concepts relating to contemporary literary
    and cultural production;
  • Deploy advanced analytical and critical skills through close reading/viewing of the set texts;
  • Demonstrate a conceptual understanding that enables the development and sustaining of a critical argument;
  • Describe and critically evaluate recent research and/or scholarship in subject;
  • Demonstrate a critical consideration of the development of a genre in light of national and Imperialist narratives
    of crime.

Assessment 2023-24.

IF you took the module in 2021-22 or 2022-23 see the tabs above for assessment relating to resits or email Dr Baker.

FORMATIVE

All students have the option to submit a word document (NOT PDF) attachment containing one 250 word entry for the glossary of terms assignment for feedback [see instructions and template below] by Wednesday 25th October 5pm (week 4) directly emailed to their seminar tutor.

You can choose one of the set entries or one of your own, whichever you think you need the most help with. You should format the entry as you would for final submission, including using only your student id on the attachment itself [not your name], and should include any references as per the full assignment instructions.

Reasonable requests for a *short* extension will be considered - in this instance you should email your module tutor directly before the deadline.

We will return the drafts by Monday 13th Nov (Week 7) at the latest, but will try and get it back sooner if possible.


Summative work

The use of AI softwares such as ChatGPT is prohibited for any of our assessments.

EN2E7 Intermediates

The intermediate year essay plan and second essay options and instructions are hereLink opens in a new window.

  • 1x 1 page Essay Plan (800 words in total) that contains two versions of the draft title, thesis statement, argument, and structure outline for the second essay (including details of text choice) before consultation with tutor and a revised version after a document office hour/email consultation with the tutor. To be submitted on tabula. (10%)
    - DEADLINE 12pm on Thursday of week 1, Term 3 (25th April 2024) 
  • 1 x 2500 word Essay with title of student's own development or from a range of options, which uses a few texts from the course and a range of primary and critical sources to respond to module themes and objectives. (40%)
    - DEADLINE 12pm on Thursday week 3 of Term 3 (9th May 2024)

EN3E7 Finalists 

The Finalist year essay plan and second essay instructions are here.Link opens in a new window

  • 1x 1 page Essay Plan (800 words in total) that contains two versions of the draft title, thesis statement, argument, and structure outline for the second essay (including details of text choice) before consultation with tutor and a revised version after a document office hour/email consultation with the tutor. To be submitted on tabula. (10%)
    - DEADLINE 12pm on Thursday of week 1, Term 3 (25th April 2024) 
  • 1 x 3000 word Essay with title of student's own development (responding to a prompt if desired) using a few texts from the course and a range of primary and critical sources and responding to module themes and objectives. (40%)
    - DEADLINE 12pm on Thursday week 3 of Term 3 (9th May 2024)

Visiting Students

If you are a visiting student and only with us for one term you are required to submit one essay of 2000 words by the end of the first term (see tabula for details) and will be sent the essay questions in the first few weeks. Those here for two terms will submit one 2000 word essay at the end of each of those terms.


SUBMISSION (all students)

For all the summative (assessed) work:


EXTENSIONS (all students)

Extensions for summative assessments should be requested via tabula (NOT your seminar tutor).

There are two types of extension:
Self-certified (i.e. no questions asked/no evidence needed, gives 5 working days, can be used twice a year) and
Specific (requires evidence, can be up to 14 full days).
More information on how to use both here:
https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/english/currentstudents/undergraduate/handbook/teaching/assessment#extension-requests 

Students who are granted flexible deadlines under the Reasonable Adjustments system (usually in consultation with and with a report from disability, wellbeing, and/or our Senior Tutor), should apply for extensions using the 'Request an extension' button by each individual assignment on Tabula. This is the same route as "specific extensions" but you will not be required to upload evidence if the request is in relation to your disability but it can help if you upload your report or add a note in the comments box that this is a reasonable adjustment claim.



Primary Texts

List of all the primary texts in order of study that you need to acquire (whether purchase or borrow) along with recommended editions.

You need unabridged versions from reputable publishers such as use the Oxford World's Classics, Penguin, Norton Critical Edition or Everyman. I do recommend (unabridged) audiobooks as a way to help bring those denser texts to life, but you will want to make notes /return to the physical text before the seminar. TV/film/ abridged radio adaptations are not permitted substitutes because we engage with language/textual imagery, narrative perspective etc, but you may use adaptations as supplementary material to help you get a grasp on plot, especially with the big novels.

If you want to use an ebook, do not just use any old edition. Use one properly formatted by a reputable publisher - all our texts are easily available this way. There are lots on archive.org you can borrow for free (just check they are the full text).

TERM ONE TEXTS

Charles Dickens, Bleak House (1853)
Recommended physical edition Oxford World's ClassicsLink opens in a new window.
Recommended e-version: Bleak House archive.orgLink opens in a new window
Use this reading guidanceLink opens in a new window to help with more effective note-taking.

Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Lady Audley's Secret (1862)
Recommended physical edition: Oxford World's ClassicsLink opens in a new window.
Recommended e-version: Lady Audley archive.org 
Use this reading guidanceLink opens in a new window to help with more effective note-taking.

Andrew Forrester, The Female Detective (1864)
Recommended physical edn for purchase British Library 2012Link opens in a new window.
Recommended e-version: Link opens in a new windowThe Female Detective at archive.orgLink opens in a new window

NB we will also be reading a story from Hayward's Revelations of a Lady Detective to accompany Forrester. The reading from that will be distributed as a photocopy, but if you want to buy and read all of the stories, then this is the only edition availableLink opens in a new window.

Wilkie Collins, The Moonstone (1868)
Recommended physical edn for purchase: Oxford World Classics (2008Link opens in a new window or 2019Link opens in a new window).
Recommended e-version: there are lots of good editions to borrow on archive.orgLink opens in a new window
Use this Reading GuidanceLink opens in a new window to help with more effective note-taking.

Arthur Conan Doyle, The Sign of the Four and short stories
We will be reading a novella and at start of term 2 reading three short stories which you can purchase / access online separately (see syllabus) or it is recommended you buy The Penguin Complete Sherlock Holmes or use this e-version from archive.orgLink opens in a new window
Use this Reading Guidance Link opens in a new windowfor The Sign of the Four and this Reading GuidanceLink opens in a new window for the Sherlock/other detective short stories of the fin de siecle.


TERM TWO TEXTS

The Crime At Black Dudley by [Margery Allingham]

  • 4 other short detective stories [links/copies provided and reading guidance same as short stories]

G.K. Chesterton, The Innocence of Father Brown (1911)
Recommended edition either PenguinLink opens in a new window or Arcturus, 2020Link opens in a new window.
Recommended e-version on archive.orgLink opens in a new window
Use this Reading GuidanceLink opens in a new window for more effective note taking.

Margery Allingham, The Crime at Black Dudley (1929)
Recommended physical edn: Vintage Publishing 2015Link opens in a new window
Recommended e-version: same edn as physical on archive.org;Link opens in a new window
Use this Reading GuidanceLink opens in a new window for more effective note taking.

Agatha Christie, The Murder at the Vicarage (1930)
Recommended physical edn Harper Collins, 2016
Recommended e-versionLink opens in a new window archive.org
Use this Reading GuidanceLink opens in a new window for more effective note-taking.

Agatha Christie, And Then There Were None (1939)
Recommended physical edn Harper Collins 2003
Recommended e-version on archive.org
Use this Reading GuidanceLink opens in a new window for more effective note-taking.

Dorothy L. Sayers, Whose Body? (1923)
Recommended physical edn: Hodder Paperbacks 2016
Recommended e-version from archive.orgLink opens in a new window
Use this Reading Guidance Link opens in a new windowfor more effective note-taking.

Dorothy L. Sayers, Strong Poison (1930)
Recommended physical edn: Hodder Paperbacks 2016Link opens in a new window
Recommended e-versionLink opens in a new window from archive.org
Use this Reading GuidanceLink opens in a new window for more effective note-taking.

Ngaio Marsh, Surfeit of Lampreys (1941)
Recommended physical copy Harper Collins 2011Link opens in a new window
Recommended e-version with American title
Use this Reading GuidanceLink opens in a new window for more effective note-taking.


Full syllabus 2023-24

UNLESS STATED OTHERWISE, ALL PRIMARY AND SECONDARY READING IN THE SYLLABUS is REQUIRED. Further reading is listed bottom of webpage/ talisaspire.

TERM 1
Week 1: Introduction
  1. FIRSTLY, read and annotate/make notes on these extracts from Michel Foucault, Discipline and PunishLink opens in a new window (1977) [c.13 pp of reading]
  2. THEN read and annotate/make notes on this introduction to Caroline Reitz, Detecting the Nation: Fictions of Detection and the Imperial VentureLink opens in a new window. Ohio State University Press, 2004. [c.13 pp of reading]
  3. THEN read and annotate/make notes on Charles Dickens "A Detective Police PartyLink opens in a new window" Household Words, Volume I, No. 18, 27 July 1850, pp.409-414. [c.8 pp of reading]

Week 2: Detecting the Condition of England (I)
  • Charles Dickens, Bleak House (1853) - PART 1 (Chapters 1- end of 29 called "The Young Man", last line is "o my child")
    Use this reading guidanceLink opens in a new window to help with more effective note-taking.
  • Ensure to bring the Foucault, the Reitz and the Dickens article from week 1, and in particular we will return to the Reitz at the beginning of class, so ensure to have a note of key points for discussion generally and anything relating to Bleak House.
Week 3: Detecting the Condition of England (II)

Week 4: New Sensations (I)
Week 5: New Sensations (II)

READING WEEK

Week 7: Early Female Detectives

Reading guidance for this week is to concentrate on the framing of these female detectives (esp. narration/prefaces), the emphasis on gendered attributes and methods of detection (positive or negative), the reasons for detecting, their relationship with men - especially other law enforcement, issues of class and economy, physical features. Anything else you notice beyond gendered aspects.

Required Secondary


Week 8: Empire State of Mind (I)
Week 9: Empire State of Mind (II)
  • Wilkie Collins, The Moonstone (1868) (from Second Period, Third Narrative contributed by Franklin Blake to the end). Return to reading guidance and continue note taking.
  • These collated extracts Link opens in a new window[8pp] from Lillian Nayder, "The Empire and Sensation" in A Companion to Sensation Fiction AND Christian Lewis, “Limping Lucy's Queer Criptopia: Narrative Sidestepping in The Moonstone.”


Week 10: Shaping Sherlock

TERM 2

Week 1: Sherlock Shorts

Use this Reading GuidanceLink opens in a new window to help with more effective note-taking.

  • "The Adventure of the Speckled Band" (1892), pp.257-272.
    "The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton" (1904), pp.572-581.
    "The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier" (1926) pp.1000-1010.
  • These extracts fromLink opens in a new window Christopher Pittard, Purity and Contamination in late Victorian Detective Fiction. Routledge, 2016.

You are welcome to read more widely from Arthur Conan Doyle Sherlock short stories in The Penguin Complete Sherlock Holmes or use this e-version from archive.orgLink opens in a new window and read more than we cover in this session.

Week 2: Beyond Sherlock

Read these four short stories showcasing different detectives, and return to the themes and critical readings from last week, and the new critical reading from Clarke and Young for this week, to gather your evidence for class discussion. The four stories will be pre-distributed as a photocopy so if you have accessibility needs such as large print or coloured paper please email or speak to Dr Baker]

Required Secondary

  • THESE EXTRACTSLink opens in a new window from Clare Clarke, British Detective Fiction, 1891-1901: The Successors to Sherlock Holmes AND Arlene Young, "" Petticoated police": Propriety and the Lady Detective in Victorian Fiction."

OPTIONAL EXAMPLES OF FURTHER PRIMARY TEXTS


Week 3: The Theology of Crime and Punishment

We will read the selected stories listed below from G.K. Chesterton’s The Innocence of Father Brown (1911). You are encouraged to read more if you have time.
Use this Reading GuidanceLink opens in a new window for more effective note taking.

  • “The Blue Cross”
  • “The Secret Garden”
  • “The Broken Sword”

Required secondary:


Wk.4. Detecting with Wimsey (i)

Wk.5. The Forgotten Queen and her C(h)ampion

READING WEEK


Wk.7 The Unexpected Detective: Miss Marple

Wk. 8 Detecting with Wimsey (ii)


Wk.9. Island Mentality

Wk.10 Bringing the Colonies Home

    Further Reading Recommendations

    SEE TALIS ASPIRE PLUS:

    Bleak House / Mid-Victorian Detection

    Cohn, Elisha. "Suspending Detection: Collins, Dickens, and the Will to Know." Dickens Studies Annual (2015): 253-276.

    Frank, Lawrence. Victorian detective fiction and the nature of evidence: the scientific investigations of Poe, Dickens, and Doyle. Springer, 2003.

    Humpherys, Anne. "British Detective Fiction in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries." Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature. 2017.

    McBratney, John. "“What Connexion Can There Be?”: Secrecy and Detection in Dickens's Bleak House." Victorian Secrecy. Routledge, 2016. 59-73.

    Pendleton, Robert W. "The Detective's Languishing Forefinger: Narrative Guides in" Bleak House" and" Little Dorrit"(Part I)." Dickens quarterly 7.3 (1990): 312-320.

    Pritchard, Allan. "The Urban Gothic of Bleak House." Nineteenth-Century Literature 45.4 (1991): 432-452.

    Thoms, Peter. Detection & Its Designs: Narrative & Power in 19th-Century Detective Fiction. Ohio University Press, 1998.

    Thoms, Peter. "" The Narrow Track of Blood": Detection and Storytelling in Bleak House." Nineteenth-century literature 50.2 (1995): 147-167.

    Trodd, Anthea. "The Policeman and the Lady: Significant Encounters in Mid-Victorian Fiction." Victorian Studies 27.4 (1984): 435-460.

    Whiteley, Giles. "Tigers, Criminals, Rogues: Animality in Dickens’ Detective Fiction." Animals in Detective Fiction. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022. 27-45.


    Lady Audley's Secret / Sensation Fiction

    Badowska, Eva. “On the Track of Things: Sensation and Modernity in Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Lady Audley's Secret.” Victorian Literature and Culture, vol. 37, no. 1, 2009, pp. 157–175., doi:10.1017/S106015030909010X.

    Bauer, Gero. Houses, Secrets, and the Closet: Locating Masculinities from the Gothic Novel to Henry James. Transcript Verlag, 2016.

    Boyd, Nolan. "Queercrip Temporality and the Representation of Disability in Lady Audley's Secret." Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies, vol. 12 no. 4, 2018, p. 407-422.

    Forman, Ross G. "Queer sensation." A Companion to Sensation Fiction, edited by Pamela K.Gilbert, Cambridge, 2011: 414-29.

    Foucault, Michel. Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason [1961], trans. Richard Howard. Taylor & Francis, 2006.

    Grass, Sean. “Lady Audley’s Portrait: Textuality, Gender, and Power.” The Commodification of Identity in Victorian Narrative: Autobiography, Sensation, and the Literary Marketplace, Cambridge University Press, 2019, pp. 105–125.

    Hachaichi, Ihsen. "" There is sex in mind": scientific determinism and the woman question in Lady Audley's Secret." Brno Studies in English, vol.38, no.1 (2012): 87-102.

    Haugtvedt, Erica. “The Sympathy of Suspense: Gaskell and Braddon’s Slow and Fast Sensation Fiction in Family Magazines.” Victorian Periodicals Review 49, no. 1 (Spring 2016): 149–70

    Heinrichs, Rachel. “Critical Masculinities in Lady Audley's Secret.” Victorian Review, vol. 33, no. 1, 2007, pp. 103–120. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/27793628.

    Jacob, Priyanka Anne. "The Pocket-book and the Pigeon-hole: Lady Audley's Secret and the Files of Victorian Fiction." Victorian Studies61.3 (2019): 371-394.

    Kungl, Carla T. "The Secret of My Mother’s Madness”: Mary Elizabeth Braddon and Gothic Instability." Demons of the Body and Mind: Essays on Disability in Gothic Literature(2010): 170-180.

    Kushnier, Jennifer S. “Educating Boys To Be Queer: Braddon’s Lady Audley’s Secret.” Victorian Literature and Culture, vol. 30, no. 1, 2002, pp. 61–75., doi:10.1017/S1060150302301049.

    McAleavey, Maia. "Colonial return: Pendennis and Lady Audley’s Secret." The Bigamy Plot: Sensation and Convention in the Victorian Novel. Vol. 100. Cambridge University Press, 2015.

    Leighton, Mary Elizabeth, and Lisa Surridge. “Illustrating the Sensation Novel.” The Cambridge Companion to Sensation Fiction, edited by Andrew Mangham, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2013, pp. 34–51.

    Luckhurst, Roger. "Gothic Colonies, 1850–1920." The Gothic World, edited by Glennis Byron and Dale Townshend. Routledge, 2014, pp.62-71.

    O'Malley, Patrick R. “Domestic Gothic: Unveiling Lady Audley's Secret.” Catholicism, Sexual Deviance, and Victorian Gothic Culture, Cambridge University Press, 2006, pp. 103–129.

    Martin, Daniel. "Railway Fatigue and the Coming-of-Age Narrative in" Lady Audley's Secret"." Victorian Review34.1 (2008): 131-153.

    Pedlar, Valerie. 'The Most Dreadful Visitation': Male Madness in Victorian Fiction. Liverpool University Press, 2006.

    Schroeder, Natalie. "Feminine sensationalism, eroticism, and self-assertion: ME Braddon and Ouida." Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature7.1 (1988): 87-103.

    Sims, Rachel A. "Insanity and the Doppelgänger in Wilkie Collins’ The Woman in White and Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s Lady Audley’s Secret." Schizo: The Liberatory Potential of Madness, edited by Irina Lyubchenko and Fiona Ann Papps, Brill, 2015. 135-144.

    Sparks, Tabitha. "To the Mad-House Born: The Ethics of Exteriority in Lady Audley’s Secret." New Perspectives on Mary Elizabeth Braddon. Brill Rodopi, 2012. 17-35.

    Showalter, Elaine. "Desperate Remedies-sensation Novels of the 1860s." Victorian Newsletter49 (1976): 1-5.

    Yang S.R., Healey K. (eds.) “Introduction: Haunted Landscapes and Fearful Spaces—Expanding Views on the Geography of the Gothic”. Gothic Landscapes. Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.


    The Moonstone

     The Moonstone Review

    You may wish to read the introduction to this 1944 edition of The Moonstone written by Dorothy L. Sayers whom we study in Term 2 https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.202518/page/n3/mode/2up 

    Anderman, Elizabeth. "Serialization, Illustration, and the Art of Sensation." Victorian Periodicals Review 52.1 (2019): 27-56.

    DeLamotte, Eugenia. "White Terror, Black Dreams: Gothic Constructions of Race in the Nineteenth Century." The Gothic Other: Racial and Social Constructions in the Literary Imagination, edited by Ruth Bienstock Anolik, Douglas L. Howard. McFarland, 2004. pp. 17-31.

    Duncan, Ian. "'The Moonstone,' the Victorian novel, and imperialist panic." Modern Language Quarterly 55.3 (1994): 297-320.

    Free, Melissa. "" Dirty linen": legacies of empire in Wilkie Collins's the Moonstone." Texas Studies in Literature and Language 48.4 (2006): 340-371.

    Gruner, Elisabeth Rose. "Family Secrets and the Mysteries of The Moonstone." Victorian literature and culture 21 (1993): 127.

    Martha Stoddard Holmes and Mark Mossman. "Disability in Victorian Sensation Fiction." A Companion to Sensation Fiction (2011): 493-506.

    Manavalli, Krishna. "Collins, Colonial Crime, and the Brahmin Sublime: The Orientalist Vision of a Hindu-Brahmin India in The Moonstone." Comparative Critical Studies 4.1 (2007): 67-86.

    Mossman, Mark. "Representations of the Abnormal Body in the Moonstone." Victorian Literature and Culture 37.2 (2009): 483-500.

    Nayder, Lillian. "Robinson Crusoe and Friday in Victorian Britain:" Discipline,"" Dialogue," and Collins's Critique of Empire in" The Moonstone"." Dickens Studies Annual 21 (1992): 213-231.

    Roberts, Lewis. "THE" SHIVERING SANDS" OF REALITY: NARRATION AND KNOWLEDGE IN WILKIE COLLINS'THE MOONSTONE." Victorian Review (1997): 168-183.

    Roy, Ashish. "The Fabulous Imperialist Semiotic of Wilkie Collin's The Moonstone." New Literary History 24.3 (1993): 657-681.

    Taylor, Jenny Bourne. In the Secret Theatre of Home: Wilkie Collins, sensation narrative, and nineteenth-century psychology. Victorian Secrets, 1988.

    Wagner, Tamara S. "Ominous Signs or False Clues? Difference and Deformity in Wilkie Collins’s Sensation Novels." Demons of the Body and Mind: Essays on Disability in Gothic Literature (2010): 47-60.

    Zieger, Susan. "Opium, Alcohol, and Tobacco: The Substances of Memory in The Moonstone." A Companion to Sensation Fiction (2011): 208-219.


    Sherlock and other male/female detectives late c19th/early c20th

    Allan, Janice M., and Christopher Pittard, eds. The Cambridge Companion to Sherlock Holmes. Cambridge University Press, 2019.

    Barsham, Diana. Arthur Conan Doyle and the Meaning of Masculinity. Routledge, 2016.

    Bredesen, Dagni. "Investigating the Female Detective in Victorian and Edwardian Fiction." Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies 3.1 (2007).

    Brantlinger, Patrick. "Imperial Gothic: Atavism and the Occult in the British Adventure Novel, 1880-1914." English literature in transition, 1880-1920 28.3 (1985): 243-252.

    Clarke, Clare. Late-Victorian Crime Fiction in the Shadows of Sherlock. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

    Downes, Daragh. "Sheer Luck, Holmes? Clues Towards Canon Formation in Victorian Detective Fiction." Victorian Fiction Beyond the Canon. Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2016. 105-123.

    Gracia, Dominique. "Back to bodies: female detectives and bodily tools and tells in Victorian detective fiction." Victorian Popular Fictions 2.1 (2020): 56-68

    Hendrey-Seabrook, Therie. "Reclassifying the Female Detective of the fin de siècle: Loveday Brooke, Vocation, and Vocality." Clues 26.1 (2007): 75.

    Jann, Rosemary. "Sherlock Holmes codes the social body." ELH 57.3 (1990): 685-708.

    Kestner, Joseph A., Sherlock's Sisters : The British Female Detective, 1864-1913, Taylor & Francis Group, 2017

    McClintock, Anne. Imperial leather: Race, gender, and sexuality in the colonial contest. Routledge, 2013.

    Moretti, Franco. "The slaughterhouse of literature." MLQ: Modern Language Quarterly 61.1 (2000): 207-227.

    Sekula, Allan. “The Body and The Archive" October, 39 (1986): 3-64.

    Sussex, Lucy. Women Writers and Detectives in Nineteenth-Century Crime Fiction: The Mothers of the Mystery Genre. Springer, 2010.

    Thomas, Ronald R. Detective fiction and the rise of forensic science. Vol. 26. Cambridge University Press, 2003.

    Thoms, Peter. Detection & Its Designs: Narrative & Power in 19th-century Detective Fiction. Ohio University Press, 1998.

    Waltraud, Ernst. "European Madness and Gender in Nineteenth-century British India." Social History of Medicine 9.3 (1996): 357-382.

    Young, Arlene. "" Petticoated police": Propriety and the Lady Detective in Victorian Fiction." Clues 26.3 (2008): 15.

    Young, Suzanne. "The Simple Art of Detection: The Female Detective in Victorian and Contemporary Mystery Novels." MFS Modern Fiction Studies 47.2 (2001): 448-457.

    Dauncey, Sarah. “Crime, Forensics, and Modern SciencLink opens in a new windowe”, A Companion to Crime Fiction, ed. Charles J. Rzepkaand Lee Horsley (Blackwell, 2010) 164-175.

    Glover, David, ‘The Writers Who Knew Too Much: Populism and Paradox in Detective Fiction’s Golden Age’, in The Art of Detective Fiction, ed. by Warren Chernaik and Robert Vilain (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 2000), pp. 36–49.

    Knight, Stephen, Crime Fiction 1800–2000: Detection, Death, Diversity(Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004).

    Miller, R. The Adventures of Arthur Conan Doyle. London: Pimlico. 2009.

    Scarlett EP. The Doctor in Detective Fiction With an Expanded Note on Dr. John Thorndyke. Arch Intern Med.1966;118(2):180–186. doi:10.1001/archinte.1966.00290140084019

    Vranken, Thomas. ""Look at this Map": Arthur Conan Doyle's use of Diegetic Illustrations in the Return of Sherlock Holmes." Clues, vol. 35, no. 1, 2017, pp. 29-39.


    Chesterton

    Ascari, Maurizio. A Counter-History of Crime Fiction. Crime Files Series. Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

    Blackwell, Laird R. The Metaphysical Mysteries of G.K. Chesterton: A Critical Study of the Father Brown Stories and Other Detective Fiction. McFarland, 2018

    Blyth, Caroline, and Alison Jack, eds. The Bible in crime fiction and drama: murderous texts. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019.

    Chesterton, G. K.. The Annotated Innocence of Father Brown. Ed. Martin Gardner. Dover Publications, 1998.

    • Clausson, Nils. "Literary Detection as Political Subversion: The Invisibility of Class in G. K. Chesterton's the Invisible Man." Clues (Bowling Green, Ohio), vol. 25, no. 4, 2007, pp. 5-16.

    Cook, Michael. Narratives of Enclosure in Detective Fiction: The Locked Room Mystery. Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

    Jack, Alison. “Tartan Noir and Sacred Scripture: The Bible as Artefact and Metanarrative in Peter May’s Lewis Trilogy”, The Bible in Crime Fiction and Drama: Murderous Texts. Ed. Alison Jack and Caroline Blyth. Bloomsbury, 2019, pp.29-40.

    Hansen, Kim Toft. “Unknowable: Detecting Metaphysics and Religion in Crime Fiction." Detecting Detection: International Perspectives on the Uses of a Plot. Bloomsbury, 2012,139 - 168.

    Merivale and Sweeney, “The Game’s Afoot: On the Trail of the Metaphysical Detective Story” in Detecting Texts : The Metaphysical Detective Story from Poe to Postmodernism, edited by Patricia Merivale, and Susan Elizabeth Sweeney, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998. 

    Paul, Robert S. Whatever Happened to Sherlock Holmes: Detective Fiction, Popular Theology, and Society. Southern Illinois University Press, 1991.

    Stapleton, Julia. Christianity, Patriotism, and Nationhood : The England of G.K. Chesterton, Lexington Books, 2009. 


    Christie and Golden Age

    Primary essays defending detective fiction https://archive.org/details/artofmysterystor0000hayc/page/n7/mode/2up?view=theater 

    Bernthal Jamie.C. Queering Agatha Christie. Crime Files. Palgrave Macmillan, 2016 https://0-doi-org.pugwash.lib.warwick.ac.uk/10.1007/978-3-319-33533-9_1

    Baučeková, Silvia. "The Flavour of Murder: Food and Crime in the Novels of Agatha Christie." Prague Journal of English Studies 3.1 (2014): 35-46.

    “Mapping Murder.” Reading and Mapping Fiction: Spatialising the Literary Text, by Sally Bushell, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2020, pp. 127–163.

    Close, Glen S. Female Corpses in Crime Fiction. Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.

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    General Secondary Text recommendation:

    Auden, W.H. The Guilty Vicarage Link opens in a new window(1963);
    Bell, Ian and Daldry, Graham (eds)., Watching the Detectives (1990);
    Barnard, Robert., A Talent to Deceive (1980);
    Bird, Delys (ed.), Killing Women (1993);
    Botting, Fred, Gothic (2001);
    Browne, Ray and Kreiser, Lawrence The Detective as Historian (2000);
    Cawelti, John G., Adventure, Mystery, and Romance (1976);
    Clarke, Clare, Late Victorian Crime Fiction in the Shadows of Sherlock (2014); British Detective Fiction 1891-1901: The Successors to Sherlock Holmes (2020)
    Dirda, Michael, On Conan Doyle (2012);
    Earwaker, Julian and Becker, Kathleen, Scene of the Crime (2002);
    Fiske, John, Understanding Popular Culture (1992);
    Foucault, Michel, Discipline and Punish (1991) and Power/Knowledge (1980);
    Frank, Lawrence,Victorian Detective Fiction and the Nature of Evidence (2003);
    Hopkins, Lisa. Ocular Proof and the Spectacled Detective in British Crime Fiction. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, 2023
    Joyce, Simon, Capital Offences (2003);
    Priestman, Martin (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Crime Fiction (2003), Detective Fiction and Literature (1990), Crime Fiction (1998);
    Klaus, Gustav and Knight, Stephen (eds), The Art of Murder (1998);
    Knight, Stephen, Form and Ideology in Crime Fiction (1988), Crime Fiction 1800-2000 (2004);
    Light, Alison, Forever England (1991);
    Malmgren, Carl, Anatomy of a Murder (2001);
    Mandel, Ernst, Delightful Murder (1984);
    Mangham, Andrew, Violent Women and Sensation Fiction (2007);
    Most, Glenn and Stowe, William (eds), The Poetics of Murder (1983);
    Munt, Sally, Murder by the Book (1994);
    Mukherjee, Pablo, Crime and Empire (2003);
    Orwell, George, The Decline of English Murder and Other Essays (1944);
    Pittard, Christopher, Purity and Contamination in Late-Victorian Detective Fiction (2011);
    Plain, Gill, Twentieth-Century Crime Fiction (2001);
    Porter, Dennis, The Pursuit of Crime (1981);
    Reddy, Maureen, Sisters in Crime (1988);
    Reitz, Caroline, Detecting the Nation (2004);
    Roth, Marty, Foul and Fair Play (1995);
    Summerscale, Kate, The Suspicions of Mr Whicher (2008);
    Thomas, Ronald, Detective Fiction and the Rise of Forensic Science (2004);
    Trodd, Anthea, Domestic Crime in the Victorian Novel (1998);
    Walker, Ronald and Frazer, June (eds), The Cunning Craft (1990),