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440 pages • missing pub info (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780813929392
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Publication date: 29 April 2015
Description
In this ambitious and exciting work Richard Maxwell uses nineteenth century urban fiction- particularly the novels of Victor Hugo and Charles Dickens- to define a greater genre, the novel of urban mysteries. His title comes from the "mystery mania...
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440 pages • missing pub info (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780813929392
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Publication date: 29 April 2015
Description
In this ambitious and exciting work Richard Maxwell uses nineteenth century urban fiction- particularly the novels of Victor Hugo and Charles Dickens- to define a greater genre, the novel of urban mysteries. His title comes from the "mystery mania...