Truth and Conjecture: Forms of Detection in Eighteenth-Century British Fiction
This study tracks tensions between different modes of knowledge in a body of eighteenth-century fictions centered around themes of detection and punishment of crimes, exemplary among which are Aphra Behn’s The History of the Nun (1689), Daniel Defoe’s Roxana (1724), Samuel Richardson’s Clarissa (174...
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| Language: | English |
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2015
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.7916/D8RV0N0B |