Victorian Detective Fiction and the Nature of Evidence
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-0-230-23030-9 (ISBN)
LAWRENCE FRANK is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Oklahoma, USA. He is the author of Charles Dickens and the Romantic Self and of essays on nineteenth-century British and American literature and culture that have appeared in various collections and journals, including American Imago, the Dickens Studies Annual, Essays in Criticism, Nineteenth-Century Literature, and Signs.
Acknowledgements Introduction: Contexts PART ONE: EDGAR ALLAN POE "The Murders in the Rue Morgue": Edgar Allan Poe's Evolutionary Reverie "The Gold-Bug", Hieroglyphics, and the Historical Imagination PART TWO: CHARLES DICKENS Bleak House , the Nebular Hypothesis, and a Crisis in Narrative News from the Dead: Archaeology, Detection and The Mystery of Edwin Drood PART THREE: ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE 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
Reihe/Serie | Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture |
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Zusatzinfo | XII, 249 p. |
Verlagsort | Basingstoke |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 140 x 216 mm |
Themenwelt | Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
ISBN-10 | 0-230-23030-X / 023023030X |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-230-23030-9 / 9780230230309 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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