It takes the average reader 4 hours and 34 minutes to read Purity and Contamination in Late Victorian Detective Fiction by Dr Christopher Pittard
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Concentrating on works by authors such as Fergus Hume, Arthur Conan Doyle, Grant Allen, L.T. Meade, and Marie Belloc Lowndes, Christopher Pittard explores the complex relation between the emergence of detective fictions in the 1880s and 1890s and the concept of purity. The centrality of material and moral purity as a theme of the genre, Pittard argues, both reflected and satirised a contemporary discourse of degeneration in which criminality was equated with dirt and disease and where national boundaries were guarded against the threat of the criminal foreigner. Situating his discussion...
Purity and Contamination in Late Victorian Detective Fiction by Dr Christopher Pittard is 272 pages long, and a total of 68,544 words.
This makes it 92% the length of the average book. It also has 84% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 14 minutes to read Purity and Contamination in Late Victorian Detective Fiction aloud.
Purity and Contamination in Late Victorian Detective Fiction is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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