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Late Victorian Crime Fiction in the Shadows of Sherlock.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Crime Files SeriesPublisher: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (230 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780230390546
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Late Victorian Crime Fiction in the Shadows of SherlockLOC classification:
  • PN3311-3503
Online resources:
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.
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.
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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.

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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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