Rise of the Detective in Early Nineteenth-Century Popular Fiction

HEATHER WORTHINGTON is a lecturer in English Literature at Cardiff University, where she teaches Nineteenth- and Twentieth-century Crime Fiction and Children's literature. Previous publications include essays on G.K. Chesterton, T.H. White and Edward Bulwer Lytton; work in hand includes a monograph on crime fiction from 1850-1900.

• Acknowledgements Introduction PART ONE: CRIMINAL NARRATIVES: TEXTUALISING CRIME Commodified Crime: Murder for the Masses Murderous Illegalities: Legalised Murder Murder for the Literary Classes Connoisseur of Crime: De Quincey's Defence of the 'Murd'rous Art' Sensational Literature and Literal Sensation: Blackwood's Tales of Terror PART TWO: MAKING THE CASE FOR THE PROFESSIONALS Literary Professional: Professional Literature Preventive Medicine: 'Passages from the Diary of a Late Physician' Legal Treatments: Evidence of Necessity Legal Treatments: Proving the Case Agent of the Law: A Gent of the Law Accessory after the Fact PART THREE: A CONSPICUOUS CONSTABULARY: OR, WHY POLICEMEN WEAR TALL HELMETS Police in Literature: Literary Police Transitional Text, Textual Transition: From Delinquency to Detection A Life, Partly Regular, Partly Adventurous The New Police: Perception and Reception Preventive Police or Personal Threat? An Orderly Body of Men A Common Sight: A Site of Commonality The Discipline of Ideology The Profession of Policing A Rich Inheritance Dickens's Detective Police Conclusion: A Rich Inheritance Notes Bibliography Index