Literature, like the living world, can be divided into kingdoms, orders, families, genera, species, and even subspecies. For example, there is the kingdom prose; the order fiction; the family novels; the genus murder detection; the species the English golden age of detective stories; and the subspecies murders that take place in prep schools. No doubt a Freudian might say that the very existence of such a subspecies is indicative of English attitudes to children or to education—or, of course, to both.
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