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The Novel and the Police
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1990
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Literary HistoryLiterary TheoryLiterary StudyComparative LiteratureLiterary CriticismVictorian FictionCommunity PolicingContemporary FictionLawCriminal LawLanguage StudiesOblique FormPolice PsychologySocial ControlAmerican LiteratureCriminal JusticeHistorical Analysis
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.