Of Women, Wine and Salt: Revisioning the Home in Harriet Prescott Spofford’s Detective Fiction
Although Harriet Prescott Spofford appears to have given up the genre of detective fiction in the late 1860s, she actually used it as the foundation for works in which suspense, sudden revelations and unexpected final twists serve her investigation of various social ills, especially those affecting...
Main Author: | Stéphanie Durrans |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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European Association for American Studies
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Series: | European Journal of American Studies |
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Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/ejas/15021 |
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