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Crime and empire : the colony in nineteenth-century fictions of crime /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mukherjee, Upamanyu Pablo
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.
Subjects:
Detective and mystery stories, English > History and criticism.
English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
Colonies in literature.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The 'criminal' colony before the new police
  • Demanding reform : from Fielding to Peel
  • Resisting the new police
  • New policing, India and thuggee
  • Representing the Mutiny : 'criminal' India after 1857
  • Shifting images of the criminal.