Description |
1 online resource (x, 249 pages) : illustrations |
Series |
Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture |
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Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture.
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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 |
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Fiction |
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19th century |
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Critical studies |
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Detective fiction |
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Victorian period |
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English novels |
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Detective stories |
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Criticism |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 208-240) and index |
Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
Subject |
Doyle, Arthur Conan, 1859-1930 -- Characters -- Sherlock Holmes
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Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. Mystery of Edwin Drood.
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Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 -- Fictional works
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Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. Bleak House.
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Holmes, Sherlock
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SUBJECT |
Doyle, Arthur Conan, 1859-1930 fast |
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Holmes, Sherlock fast |
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Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 fast |
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Bleak House (Dickens, Charles) fast |
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Mystery of Edwin Drood (Dickens, Charles) fast |
Subject |
Detective and mystery stories, English -- History and criticism
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Detective and mystery stories, American -- History and criticism
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Popular literature -- English-speaking countries -- History and criticism
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Forensic sciences -- English-speaking countries -- History -- 19th century
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English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
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Private investigators in literature.
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Literature and science -- English-speaking countries
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Evidence, Criminal, in literature.
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Science in literature.
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Literature and science -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
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Forensic sciences -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Criticism and interpretation
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Detective and mystery stories, American
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Detective and mystery stories, English
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English fiction
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Evidence, Criminal, in literature
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Forensic sciences
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Literature and science
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Popular literature
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Private investigators in literature
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Science in literature
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Misdaadromans.
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Victoriaanse tijd.
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Bewijsstukken.
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Great Britain
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English-speaking countries
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Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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Form |
Electronic book
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LC no. |
2002044800 |
ISBN |
1403911398 |
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9781403911391 |
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1403919321 |
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9780230279704 |
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9781403919328 |
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0230279708 |
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