Late Victorian Crime Fiction in the Shadows of Sherlock
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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,...
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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.
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Introduction 1. 'Ordinary Secret Sinners': Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886). 2. 'The most popular book of modern times': Fergus Hume's The Mystery of a Hansom Cab (1886). 3. 'L'homme c'est rien - l'oeuvre c'est tout': the Sherlock Holmes stories and work. 4. Something for 'the silly season': Policing and the Press in Israel Zangwill's The Big Bow Mystery (1891). 5. Tales of 'mean streets': the criminal-detective in Arthur Morrison's The Dorrington Deed-Box (1897). 6. A Criminal in Disguise': class and empire in Guy Boothby's A Prince of Swindlers (1897). Conclusion Works Cited Index
Autoren-Porträt von Clare Clarke
Clare Clarke is Assistant Professor of Nineteenth-Century Literature at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. She specialises in detective fiction and the literature and culture of the late-Victorian era. Her research has been published in CLUES, Women's Writing, and Victorian Literature and Culture.Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Clare Clarke
- 2014, 221 Seiten, Maße: 21,6 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
- ISBN-10: 0230390536
- ISBN-13: 9780230390539
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Englisch
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