Late Victorian Crime Fiction in the Shadows of Sherlock / by C. Clarke.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Clarke, C., Author.

Series:

Crime Files, 2947-8359

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fiction.

Literature--Philosophy.

Literature.

Culture--Study and teaching.

Culture.

Literature--History and criticism.

Fiction Literature.

Literary Theory.

Cultural Theory.

Literary History.

Local Subjects:

Fiction Literature.

Literary Theory.

Cultural Theory.

Literary History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (230 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2014.

Place of Publication:

London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book investigates the development of crime fiction in the 1880s and 1890s, challenging studies of late-Victorian crime fiction which have given undue prominence to a handful of key figures and have offered an over-simplified analytical framework, thereby overlooking the generic, moral, and formal complexities of the nascent genre.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 'Ordinary Secret Sinners': Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886); 2 'The Most Popular Book of Modern Times': Fergus Hume's The Mystery of a Hansom Cab (1886); 3 'L'homme c'est rien - l'oeuvre c'est tout': The Sherlock Holmes Stories and Work; 4 Something for 'the Silly Season': Policing and the Press in Israel Zangwill's The Big Bow Mystery (1891); 5 Tales of 'Mean Streets': The Criminal-Detective in Arthur Morrison's The Dorrington Deed-Box (1897)

6 'A Criminal in Disguise': Class and Empire in Guy Boothby's A Prince of Swindlers (1897)Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781349351305

134935130X

9780230390546

0230390544