Victorian tales of mystery and detection: an Oxford anthology
Like ghost stories, short tales of mystery and detection were part of the Victorian reader's staple diet. But where the ghost story often cautioned against too great a faith in reason and showed men and women being persecuted by the inexplicable, the detective story celebrated the human ability...
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| Zusammenfassung: | Like ghost stories, short tales of mystery and detection were part of the Victorian reader's staple diet. But where the ghost story often cautioned against too great a faith in reason and showed men and women being persecuted by the inexplicable, the detective story celebrated the human ability to explain and comprehend. Edgar Allan Poe's stories concerning the investigations of the brilliant but eccentric Chevalier C. Auguste Dupin form the fountainhead of the detective-story tradition. Thereafter the detective story developed within the framework of mid-Victorian sensation fiction, with its emphasis on crime in contemporary settings and ingeniously devised plots. Then, in 1891, the first series of Sherlock Holmes stories began to appear in the Strand magazine and the detective story was never the same again. In this entertaining anthology Michael Cox has assembled a wide ranging selection of 31 stories from authors such as J. S Le Fanu, Charles Dickens, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Mrs. Henry Wood, Wilkie Collins, Grant Allen, L. T. Meade and Robert Eustace, Fergus Hume, Arthur Morrison, M. P. Shiel, Baroness Orczy, Sax Rohmer, Robert Barr, and - inevitably - Arthur Conan Doyle. There are police detectives, gentleman amateurs, lady detectives (such as Catherine Pirkis's Loveday Brooke), professional consulting detectives, even an 'anti-detective' (Guy Boothby's Klimo, who devises a crime for himself to solve), and a psychic detective. The villains against whom they pit their wits are equally various, as are their crimes - from fraud and forgery to theft, abduction, and of course murder most foul, whether by poison, bullet, or blade. These stories offer hours of enjoyable escape for all lovers of crime fiction They also bring alive the Victorian age - its social distinctions, its language and domestic surroundings and, most typically, the sights and sounds of its streets - and together provide an outline of the Victorian detective story from the 1840s to the early years of the twentieth century |
| Beschreibung: | XXVI, 578 S. |
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Autor: Cox, Michael
Jahr: 1992
CONTENTS Introduction ix The Purloined Letter (1845) edgar allan poe i The Murdered Cousin (1851) j. s. le fanu 18 Hunted Down (18 sg) charles dickens 48 Levison s Victim { 1870) mary Elizabeth braddon 69 The Mystery at Number Seven (1877) mrs henry wood 84 The Going Out of Alessandro Pozzone (1878) 124 RICHARD DOWLING Who KilledZebedee? (1881) wilkie collins 141 A Circumstantial Puzzle (1889) R. e. francillon 161 The Mystery of Essex Stairs (1891) 186 SIR GILBERT CAMPBELL The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle (1892) 195 SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE The Great Ruby Robbery (1892) grant allen 214 The Sapient Monkey (1892) headon hill 233 Cheating the Gallows (1893) Israel zangwill 241 Drawn Daggers (1893) c. L. pirkis 254 The Greenstone God and the Stockbroker (1894) 274 FERGUS HUME The Arrest of Captain Vandaleur (1894) 289 L. T. MEADE and ROBERT EUSTACE The Accusing Shadow (1894) harry blyth 303 The Ivy Cottage Mystery (1895) Arthur morrison 342 The Aztech Opal { 1895) rodrigues otTolengui 365
Contents viii The Long Arm (1895) mary e. wilkins 377 The Case of Euphemia Raphash (1895) M. P. shiel 406 The Tin Box (1896) Herbert keen 420 Murder by Proxy (1897) M. mcdonnell bodkin 437 The Duchess of Wiltshire’s Diamonds (1897) GUY boothby 457 The Story of The Spaniards, Hammersmith (1898) 480 E. and H. HERON The Lost Special (1898) SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE 493 The Banknote Forger (1899) C. J. cutcliffe hyne 508 A Warning in Red (1899) 518 VICTOR L. WHITECHURCH ana E. CONWAY The Fenchurch Street Mystery (1901) baroness orczy 528 The Green Spider (1904) SAX rohmer 543 The Clue of the Silver Spoons (190 4) ROBERT barr 555 Sources 573 Select Bibliography 576
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