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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.
Price: $31.95
Pages: 240
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Publication Date:
14 July 1989
ISBN: 9780520067462
Format: Paperback
D.A. Miller is Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley.
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
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