Screen LibraryTowards Sherlock Holmes : a thematic history of crime fiction in the 19th century world /
"Crime fiction features specialists who identify criminals to protect an anxious citizenry. Before detectives came to play the central role, the protagonists tended to be lawyers. English writers like Gaskell, Dickens and Collins contributed to the genre and American and French authors created...
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| Published: |
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers,
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| Publisher Address: | Jefferson, North Carolina : |
| Publication Dates: | [2017] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
"Crime fiction features specialists who identify criminals to protect an anxious citizenry. Before detectives came to play the central role, the protagonists tended to be lawyers. English writers like Gaskell, Dickens and Collins contributed to the genre and American and French authors created new forms. This book explores thematic aspects of 19th century crime fiction's complex history"-- |
| Carrier Form: | v, 229 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-223) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781476666167 (paperback : alkaline paper) : 1476666164 (paperback : alkaline paper) |
| Index Number: | PN3448 |
| CLC: | I106.4 |
| Call Number: | I106.4/K713-1 |
| Contents: | Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Before the tough guys: the traditions of 19th-century American crime fiction -- 2. Sherlock Holmes' grandmother: French contributions to the formation of crime fiction -- 3. Ferret at work: class and detection in early English crime fiction -- 4. Jonathan Wild in petticoats: women detectives in Victorian England -- 5. Major authors, no major detectives: the response of mainstream novelists to emergent crime fiction -- 6. Why did Hume's The mystery of a hansom cab move so fast? -- 7. "Watson's wound and The speckled band: imperial threats and English crimes in Co |