Title Victorian detective fiction and the nature of evidence : the scientific investigations of Poe, Dickens, and Doyle / Lawrence Frank

Published Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2003

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Description 1 online resource (x, 249 pages) : illustrations Series Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture. Contents Edgar Allan Poe -- "The Murders in the Rue Morgue": Edgar Allan Poe's Evolutionary Reverie -- "The Gold-Bug," Hieroglyphics, and the Historical Imagination -- Charles Dickens -- Bleak House, the Nebular Hypothesis and a Crisis in Narrative -- News from the Dead: Archaeology, Detection, and The Mystery of Edwin Drood -- 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 Summary In this innovative book, now available in paperback for the first time, Frank investigates an intertextual exchange between nineteenth-century historical disciplines (philology, cosmology, geology archaeology and Darwin's theories of evolutionary biology) and the detective fictions of Poe, Dickens, and Doyle Analysis Literature Fiction 19th century Critical studies Detective fiction Victorian period English novels Detective stories Criticism Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 208-240) and index Notes English Print version record Subject Doyle, Arthur Conan, 1859-1930 -- Characters -- Sherlock Holmes Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. Mystery of Edwin Drood. Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 -- Fictional works Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. Bleak House. Holmes, Sherlock SUBJECT Doyle, Arthur Conan, 1859-1930 fast Holmes, Sherlock fast Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 fast Bleak House (Dickens, Charles) fast Mystery of Edwin Drood (Dickens, Charles) fast Subject Detective and mystery stories, English -- History and criticism Detective and mystery stories, American -- History and criticism Popular literature -- English-speaking countries -- History and criticism Forensic sciences -- English-speaking countries -- History -- 19th century English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism Private investigators in literature. Literature and science -- English-speaking countries Evidence, Criminal, in literature. Science in literature. Literature and science -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century Forensic sciences -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. Criticism and interpretation Detective and mystery stories, American Detective and mystery stories, English English fiction Evidence, Criminal, in literature Forensic sciences Literature and science Popular literature Private investigators in literature Science in literature Misdaadromans. Victoriaanse tijd. Bewijsstukken. Great Britain English-speaking countries Genre/Form Electronic books Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book LC no. 2002044800 ISBN 1403911398 9781403911391 1403919321 9780230279704 9781403919328 0230279708

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