Chemical crimes : science and poison in Victorian crime fiction / Cheryl Blake Price.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Price, Cheryl Blake, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.

English fiction.

Crime in literature.

Poisoners in literature.

Poisoning in literature.

Criminals in literature.

Murder in literature.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

viii, 195 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2019]

Summary:

"An exploration of poison's transformation into chemical crime in the nineteenth century and impact on crime fiction and Victorian perceptions of science. Examines the role of scientific criminals in the works of Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Ellen Wood, Edward Bulwer Lytton, L.T. Meade, Charles Warren Adams, and Wilkie Collins"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

"The science of murder": educating the female chemical criminal in L.E.L.'s Ethel Churchill and Bulwer's Lucretia

Medical bluebeards: Gothic medicine and the poisoning doctor in the fiction of Ellen Wood

Chemicalized bodies and criminal intent: unruly bodies and the limitations of forensic science in early detective fiction

L.T. Meade's female mad scientists: science fiction and the transformation of the chemical criminal in fin de siècle detective fiction.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-189) and index.

ISBN:

9780814213919

081421391X

OCLC:

1048947662