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Book Synopsis
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.

Table of Contents
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

The Novel and The Police

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      Publisher: University of California Press
      Publication Date: 7/14/1989 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780520067462, 978-0520067462
      ISBN10: 0520067460

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Table of Contents
      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

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