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Author | : L. Frank |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2003-07-02 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1403919321 |
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Frank investigates an intertextual exchange between nineteenth-century historical disciplines (philology, cosmology, geology archaeology and evolutionary biology) and the detective fictions of Poe, Dickens, and Doyle. In responding to the writings of figures like Lyell, Darwin and E.B. Taylor, detective fiction initiated a transition from scriptural literalism and a prevailing Natural Theology to a naturalistic, secular worldview. In the process, detective fiction sceptically examined both the evidence such disciplines used and their narrative rendering of the world.
Author | : Lawrence Frank |
Publisher | : Palgrave Schol, Print UK |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 2003-10-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781403911391 |
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In this innovative book, now available in paperback for the first time, Frank investigates an intertextual exchange between nineteenth-century historical disciplines (philology, cosmology, geology archaeology and Darwin's theories of evolutionary biology) and the detective fictions of Poe, Dickens, and Doyle.
Author | : Dr Christopher Pittard |
Publisher | : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2013-05-28 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1409478823 |
Download Purity and Contamination in Late Victorian Detective Fiction Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Concentrating on works by authors such as Fergus Hume, Arthur Conan Doyle, Grant Allen, L.T. Meade, and Marie Belloc Lowndes, Christopher Pittard explores the complex relation between the emergence of detective fictions in the 1880s and 1890s and the concept of purity. The centrality of material and moral purity as a theme of the genre, Pittard argues, both reflected and satirised a contemporary discourse of degeneration in which criminality was equated with dirt and disease and where national boundaries were guarded against the threat of the criminal foreigner. Situating his discussion within the ideologies underpinning George Newnes's Strand Magazine as well as a wide range of nonfiction texts, Pittard demonstrates that the genre was a response to the seductive and impure delights associated with sensation and gothic novels. Further, Pittard suggests that criticism of detective fiction has in turn become obsessed with the idea of purity, thus illustrating how a genre concerned with policing the impure itself became subject to the same fear of contamination. Contributing to the richness of Pittard's project are his discussions of the convergence of medical discourse and detective fiction in the 1890s, including the way social protest movements like the antivivisectionist campaigns and medical explorations of criminality raised questions related to moral purity.
Author | : Dawn B. Sova |
Publisher | : Infobase Publishing |
Total Pages | : 467 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1438108427 |
Download Critical Companion to Edgar Allan Poe Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Examines the life and career of Edgar Allan Poe including synopses of many of his works, biographies of family and friends, a discussion of Poe's influence on other writers, and places that influenced his writing.
Author | : C. Clarke |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 2014-09-26 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0230390544 |
Download Late Victorian Crime Fiction in the Shadows of Sherlock Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book investigates the development of crime fiction in the 1880s and 1890s, challenging studies of late-Victorian crime fiction which have given undue prominence to a handful of key figures and have offered an over-simplified analytical framework, thereby overlooking the generic, moral, and formal complexities of the nascent genre.
Author | : Heather Worthington |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 2011-08-31 |
Genre | : Study Aids |
ISBN | : 1350310328 |
Download Key Concepts in Crime Fiction Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
An insight into a popular yet complex genre that has developed over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The volume explores the contemporary anxieties to which crime fiction responds, along with society's changing conceptions of crime and criminality. The book covers texts, contexts and criticism in an accessible and user-friendly format.
Author | : Catherine Mary McLoughlin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 333 |
Release | : 2018-05-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107195934 |
Download Veteran Poetics Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Illustrates how war veterans have been used in British literature since the 1790s to explore being, knowing and storytelling.
Author | : Alexandra Warwick |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2008-05-22 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1441126422 |
Download The Victorian Literature Handbook Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Victorian Literature Handbook is an accessible and comprehensive introduction to literature and culture in the Victorian period. It is a one-stop resource for literature students, providing the essential information and guidance needed from introducing the historical and cultural context to key authors, texts and genres. It includes case studies for reading literary and critical texts, a guide to key critical concepts, introductions to key critical approaches, and a timeline of literary and cultural events. Essays on changes in the canon, interdisciplinary research and current and future directions in the field lead into more advanced topics and guided further reading enables further independent work. Written in clear language by leading academics, it is an indispensable starting point for anyone beginning their study of nineteenth century literature.
Author | : Debayan Deb Barman |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 255 |
Release | : 2022-02-28 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1793649588 |
Download Critical Essays on English and Bengali Detective Fiction Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Critical Essays on English and Bengali Detective Fiction brings together three strains of detective fiction: British, American, and Bengal. The import of detective fiction from Britain has influenced generations of writers of Bengali detective fiction. In this anthology of critical essays by scholars on detective fiction, we have divided the contents into three groups. First, there are essays on classic British detective fiction, with essays on Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie, P.D.James, Kate Atkinson, and Margery Allingham. The second section is on American hard-boiled fiction with essays on Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler. The third section is on Bengali detective fiction with essays on Hemendra Kumar Roy, Saradindu Bandyopadhay and Satyajit Ray. Together, these essays bring three strains of detective fiction into conversation to show the gradual postcolonial attempt of Bengali detective fiction to outgrow colonial influences and create an original and organic tradition of regional and vernacular detective fiction.
Author | : Leila Neti |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 315 |
Release | : 2021-04-22 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1108950744 |
Download Colonial Law in India and the Victorian Imagination Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Situated at the intersection of law and literature, nineteenth-century studies and post-colonialism, Colonial Law in India and the Victorian Imagination draws on original archival research to shed new light on Victorian literature. Each chapter explores the relationship between the shared cultural logic of law and literature, and considers how this inflected colonial sociality. Leila Neti approaches the legal archive in a distinctly literary fashion, attending to nuances of voice, character, diction and narrative, while also tracing elements of fact and procedure, reading the case summaries as literary texts to reveal the common turns of imagination that motivated both fictional and legal narratives. What emerges is an innovative political analytic for understanding the entanglements between judicial and cultural norms in Britain and the colony, bridging the critical gap in how law and literature interact within the colonial arena.