SOURCE: Thomas, Ronald R. “Victorian Detective Fiction and Legitimate Literature: Recent Directions in the Criticism.” Victorian Literature and Culture 24 (1996): 367-79.
In the following essay, Thomas asserts that Victorian attitudes toward crime fiction persist in twentieth-century criticism.
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