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Novel and the Police by D. A. Miller (1989, Trade Paperback)

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"With the appearance of. For all th's overarching debt to Foucault. Miller 'do the police' in a voice all his own.". --Garrett Stewart, author ofDeath Sentences: Styles of Dying in British Fiction.

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Product Identifiers

PublisherUniversity of California Press

ISBN-100520067460

ISBN-139780520067462

eBay Product ID (ePID)1002252

Product Key Features

Book TitleNovel and the Police

Number of Pages240 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year1989

TopicEuropean / General, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

FeaturesReprint

GenreLiterary Criticism

AuthorD. A. Miller

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight9.6 Oz

Item Length8 in

Item Width4.9 in

Additional Product Features

LCCN87-025470

Dewey Edition19

TitleLeadingThe

Dewey Decimal823/.8/09355

Edition DescriptionReprint

Table Of ContentForeword: "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

SynopsisThrough 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.

LC Classification NumberPR861