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dc.contributor.authorKareno, Emma-
dc.date.accessioned2015-06-01T14:41:17Z-
dc.date.available2015-06-01T14:41:17Z-
dc.date.issued1996-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1893/21824-
dc.description.abstractThis work examines the significance of drugs in Victorian stories of detection through a selection of detective fiction published between the years 1860 and 1890. The main purpose of the work is to show how these texts make a specific link between drugs and detection, and use this link to engage themselves in questions concerning reading and the consumption of fiction. I wish to argue, first, that drugs play a significant role in Victorian detective stories as a device to produce a sense of mystery and excitement in these texts. Secondly, I shall hope to show how this is achieved especially by presenting detection as having the drug-like qualities of intoxication and addiction. And thirdly, I shall examine how this particular characterisation of detection evokes a conception of detective fiction as a drug and invites the reader to consider her experience of reading in terms of an experience of drugs. In short, drugs, in these narratives, do not appear as a mere theme or a plot element, but can be seen to affect the very narrative form and structure of the fiction.en_GB
dc.language.isoenen_GB
dc.subject.lcshDrugs in literatureen_GB
dc.subject.lcshDetective and mystery stories 19th century History and criticismen_GB
dc.subject.lcshPrivate investigators in literatureen_GB
dc.titleSherlock's pharmacy : Drugs in detective stories, 1860s to 1890sen_GB
dc.typeThesis or Dissertationen_GB
dc.type.qualificationlevelDoctoralen_GB
dc.type.qualificationnameDoctor of Philosophyen_GB
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