A counter-history of crime fiction : supernatural, gothic, sensational /

A Counter-History of Crime Fiction takes a new look at the evolution of crime fiction, drawing on material from the Middle Ages up to the early twentieth century, when the genre was theoretically defined as detective fiction. Considering 'criminography' as a system of inter-related, even i...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ascari, Maurizio (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Colección:Crime files series.
Temas:
Detective and mystery stories, English > History and criticism.
Supernatural in literature.
Sensationalism in literature.
Surnaturel dans la littérature.
Sensationnalisme dans la littérature.
Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers.
Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900.
Literary essays.
Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Literature.
Detective and mystery stories, English
Sensationalism in literature
Supernatural in literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Revising the canon of crime and detection
  • Detection before detection
  • Persecution and omniscience
  • Victorian ghosts and revengers
  • Pseudo-sciences and the occult
  • The language of Auguste Dupin
  • On the sensational in literature
  • London as a 'heart of darkness'
  • The rhetoric of atavism and degeneration
  • The age of formula fiction

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