The Rise Of The Detective In Early Nineteenth Century Popular Fiction
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Author | : Heather Worthington |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 213 |
Release | : 2005-05-18 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0230506283 |
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Detection existed in fiction long before Poe and Doyle. Its real origins lurk in the popular press of the early Nineteenth century, where the detective and the case were steadily developed. The well-known masters of early crime fiction, including Collins and Dickens, drew on this material, found in texts that have rarely been reprinted or even discussed. In this revealing book, Heather Worthington combines scholarly and archival study with theoretically informed analysis to unearth the foundations of detective fiction. This is essential reading for those researching in, studying, or just fascinated by crime fiction.
Author | : LeRoy Lad Panek |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 2021-09-08 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1476687528 |
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In English and American cultures, detective fiction has a long and illustrious history. Its origins can be traced back to major developments in Anglo-American law, like the concept of circumstantial evidence and the rise of lawyers as heroic figures. Edgar Allen Poe's writings further fueled this cultural phenomenon, with the use of enigmas and conundrums in his detective stories, as well as the hunt-and-chase action of early police detective novels. Poe was only one staple of the genre, with detective fiction contributing to a thriving literary market that later influenced Arthur Conan Doyle's work. This text examines the emergence of short detective fiction in the nineteenth century, as well as the appearance of detectives in Victorian novels. It explores how the genre has captivated readers for centuries, with the chapters providing a framework for a more complete understanding of nineteenth-century detective fiction.
Author | : Ronald R. Thomas |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9780521527620 |
Download Detective Fiction and the Rise of Forensic Science Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This is a book about the relationship between the development of forensic science in the nineteenth century and the invention of the new literary genre of detective fiction in Britain and America. Ronald R. Thomas examines the criminal body as a site of interpretation and enforcement in a wide range of fictional examples, from Poe, Dickens and Hawthorne through Twain and Conan Doyle to Hammett, Chandler and Christie. He is especially concerned with the authority the literary detective manages to secure through the 'devices' - fingerprinting, photography, lie detectors - with which he discovers the truth and establishes his expertise, and the way in which those devices relate to broader questions of cultural authority at decisive moments in the history of the genre. This is an interdisciplinary project, framing readings of literary texts with an analysis of contemporaneous developments in criminology, the rules of evidence, and modern scientific accounts of identity.
Author | : Charles J. Rzepka |
Publisher | : Polity |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 2005-09-30 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780745629421 |
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'Detective Fiction' is a clear and compelling look at some of the best known, yet least-understood characters and texts of the modern day. Undergraduate students of Detective and Crime Fiction and of genre fiction in general, will find this book essential reading.
Author | : LeRoy Lad Panek |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 237 |
Release | : 2015-01-24 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0786481382 |
Download The Origins of the American Detective Story Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Edgar Allan Poe essentially invented the detective story in 1841 with Murders in the Rue Morgue. In the years that followed, however, detective fiction in America saw no significant progress as a literary genre. Much to the dismay of moral crusaders like Anthony Comstock, dime novels and other sensationalist publications satisfied the public's hunger for a yarn. Things changed as the century waned, and eventually the detective was reborn as a figure of American literature. In part these changes were due to a combination of social conditions, including the rise and decline of the police as an institution; the parallel development of private detectives; the birth of the crusading newspaper reporter; and the beginnings of forensic science. Influential, too, was the new role model offered by a wildly popular British import named Sherlock Holmes. Focusing on the late 19th century and early 20th, this volume covers the formative years of American detective fiction. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.
Author | : Caroline Reitz |
Publisher | : Ohio State University Press |
Total Pages | : 150 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0814209823 |
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In Detecting the Nation, Reitz argues that detective fiction was essential both to public acceptance of the newly organized police force in early Victorian Britain and to acclimating the population to the larger venture of the British Empire. In doing so, Reitz challenges literary-historical assumptions that detective fiction is a minor domestic genre that reinforces a distinction between metropolitan center and imperial periphery. Rather, Reitz argues, nineteenth-century detective fiction helped transform the concept of an island kingdom to that of a sprawling empire; detective fiction placed imperialism at the center of English identity by recasting what had been the suspiciously un-English figure of the turn-of-the-century detective as the very embodiment of both English principles and imperial authority. She supports this claim through reading such masters of the genre as Godwin, Dickens, Collins, and Doyle in relation to narratives of crime and empire such as James Mill's History of British India, narratives about Thuggee, and selected writings of Kipling and Buchan. Detective fiction and writings more specifically related to the imperial project, such as political tracts and adventure stories, were inextricably interrelated during this time.
Author | : Stephen Knight |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2011-11-08 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0786488441 |
Download The Mysteries of the Cities Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
A popular crime genre in the nineteenth century, urban mysteries have largely been ignored ever since. This historical and critical text examines the origins of the innovative genre, which grappled with the rise of enormous, anonymous cities, beginning in France in 1842, then spreading rapidly across the continent and to America and Australia. Writers covered include Eugene Sue, George Reynolds, Paul Feval, George Lippard, "Ned Buntline" and Donald Cameron.
Author | : Haia Shpayer-Makov |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press on Demand |
Total Pages | : 444 |
Release | : 2011-09-29 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0199577404 |
Download The Ascent of the Detective Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Explores the diverse and often arcane world of English police detectives during the formative period of their profession, from 1842 until the First World War, with special emphasis on the famed detective branch established at Scotland Yard.
Author | : Lucyna Krawczyk-Żywko |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 125 |
Release | : 2017-11-28 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 3319693115 |
Download Victorian Detectives in Contemporary Culture Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
In contrast to the main body of current Victorian detective criticism, which tends to concentrate on Conan Doyle’s creation and only uses other detectives as a backdrop, the texts gathered in this volume examine various contemporary ways of (re)presenting real and fictional detectives that originated in or are otherwise associated with that era: Inspector Bucket, Sergeant Cuff, Inspector Reid, Tobias Gregson, Flaxman Low, and psychiatrists as detectives. Such a collection allows for a critical re-assessment of both the detectives’ importance to the Victorian literature and culture and provides a better basis for understanding the reasons behind their contemporary returns, re-imaginings and re-creations, contributing to the creation of a base for further cultural and critical works dealing with reworkings of the Victorian era.
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.