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Victorian detective fiction and the nature of evidence : the scientific investigations of Poe, Dickens, and Doyle, Lawrence Frank
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- Summary
- "This study is an original contribution to nineteenth-century literary and cultural studies in its methodology, its subject matter, and its vision of detective fiction. It engages in a form of intellectual paleontology, tracing the genealogy of a genre through a model based on the Origin of Species read as a form of postmodern historiography. It places detective fiction within the context of popular scientific texts by John Pringle Nichol, Robert Chambers, Winwood Reade, and John Tyndall, as well as the writings of Charles Lyell, Charles Darwin, and Thomas Huxley. Frank does not treat detective fiction only as the symptom of a prevailing ideology, but investigates it as a genre promoting a secular worldview in a time of competing visions of the universe and the human situation. Such an approach necessitates close readings of scientific and literary texts that, through explicit and implicit allusions to cosmology, philology, geology, paleontology, archaeology, and evolutionary biology, reveal their ultimate seriousness and heterodoxy."--Jacket
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- x, 249 pages
- Contents
-
- "The Murders in the Rue Morgue": Edgar Allan Poe's Evolutionary Reverie
- "The GoldBug", Hieroglyphics, and the Historical Imagination
- Bleak House, the Nebular Hypothesis, and a Crisis in Narrative
- News from the Dead: Archaeology, Detection and The Mystery of Edwin Drood
- Sherlock Holmes and "The Book of Life"
- Reading the Gravel Page: Lyell, Darwin and Doyle
- The Hound of the Baskervilles, the Man on the Tor, and a Metaphor for the Mind
- Epilogue: "A Retrospection"
- Notes
- Index
- Isbn
- 9781403911391
- Label
- Victorian detective fiction and the nature of evidence : the scientific investigations of Poe, Dickens, and Doyle
- Title
- Victorian detective fiction and the nature of evidence
- Title remainder
- the scientific investigations of Poe, Dickens, and Doyle
- Statement of responsibility
- Lawrence Frank
- Subject
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- Detective and mystery stories, English -- History and criticism
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
- History
- Literature and science -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
- Detective and mystery stories, American -- History and criticism
- Private investigators in literature
- Forensic sciences -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
- Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
- Science in literature
- Popular literature -- English-speaking countries -- History and criticism
- Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 -- Fictional works
- Forensic sciences -- English-speaking countries -- History -- 19th century
- Doyle, Arthur Conan, 1859-1930 -- Characters | Sherlock Holmes
- Evidence, Criminal, in literature
- Holmes, Sherlock
- Literature and science -- English-speaking countries
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "This study is an original contribution to nineteenth-century literary and cultural studies in its methodology, its subject matter, and its vision of detective fiction. It engages in a form of intellectual paleontology, tracing the genealogy of a genre through a model based on the Origin of Species read as a form of postmodern historiography. It places detective fiction within the context of popular scientific texts by John Pringle Nichol, Robert Chambers, Winwood Reade, and John Tyndall, as well as the writings of Charles Lyell, Charles Darwin, and Thomas Huxley. Frank does not treat detective fiction only as the symptom of a prevailing ideology, but investigates it as a genre promoting a secular worldview in a time of competing visions of the universe and the human situation. Such an approach necessitates close readings of scientific and literary texts that, through explicit and implicit allusions to cosmology, philology, geology, paleontology, archaeology, and evolutionary biology, reveal their ultimate seriousness and heterodoxy."--Jacket
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1933-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Frank, Lawrence
- Dewey number
- 823/.08720908
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- PR878.D4
- LC item number
- F73 2003
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- Series statement
- Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Literature and science
- Detective and mystery stories, American
- Popular literature
- English fiction
- Forensic sciences
- Evidence, Criminal, in literature
- Science in literature
- Private investigators in literature
- Forensic sciences
- Detective and mystery stories, English
- Doyle, Arthur Conan
- Literature and science
- Dickens, Charles
- Poe, Edgar Allan
- Dickens, Charles
- Holmes, Sherlock
- Label
- Victorian detective fiction and the nature of evidence : the scientific investigations of Poe, Dickens, and Doyle, Lawrence Frank
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 208-240) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- "The Murders in the Rue Morgue": Edgar Allan Poe's Evolutionary Reverie -- "The GoldBug", Hieroglyphics, and the Historical Imagination -- Bleak House, the Nebular Hypothesis, and a Crisis in Narrative -- News from the Dead: Archaeology, Detection and The Mystery of Edwin Drood -- Sherlock Holmes and "The Book of Life" -- Reading the Gravel Page: Lyell, Darwin and Doyle -- The Hound of the Baskervilles, the Man on the Tor, and a Metaphor for the Mind -- Epilogue: "A Retrospection" -- Notes -- Index
- Control code
- 51290106
- Dimensions
- 23 cm
- Extent
- x, 249 pages
- Isbn
- 9781403911391
- Lccn
- 2002044800
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- Label
- Victorian detective fiction and the nature of evidence : the scientific investigations of Poe, Dickens, and Doyle, Lawrence Frank
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 208-240) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- "The Murders in the Rue Morgue": Edgar Allan Poe's Evolutionary Reverie -- "The GoldBug", Hieroglyphics, and the Historical Imagination -- Bleak House, the Nebular Hypothesis, and a Crisis in Narrative -- News from the Dead: Archaeology, Detection and The Mystery of Edwin Drood -- Sherlock Holmes and "The Book of Life" -- Reading the Gravel Page: Lyell, Darwin and Doyle -- The Hound of the Baskervilles, the Man on the Tor, and a Metaphor for the Mind -- Epilogue: "A Retrospection" -- Notes -- Index
- Control code
- 51290106
- Dimensions
- 23 cm
- Extent
- x, 249 pages
- Isbn
- 9781403911391
- Lccn
- 2002044800
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
Subject
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Detective and mystery stories, American -- History and criticism
- Detective and mystery stories, English -- History and criticism
- Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
- Doyle, Arthur Conan, 1859-1930 -- Characters | Sherlock Holmes
- English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
- Evidence, Criminal, in literature
- Forensic sciences -- English-speaking countries -- History -- 19th century
- Forensic sciences -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
- History
- Holmes, Sherlock
- Literature and science -- English-speaking countries
- Literature and science -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
- Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 -- Fictional works
- Popular literature -- English-speaking countries -- History and criticism
- Private investigators in literature
- Science in literature
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