A counter-history of crime fiction: supernatural, Gothic, sensational
Presents a study of crime fiction that takes a fresh look at its evolution, drawing on material from the Middle Ages onwards. This title explores the connections between revenge tragedies, the gothic, urban mysteries and anarchist fiction, and examines the influence of pseudo-sciences such as mesmer...
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Basingstoke [u.a.]
Palgrave Macmillan
2009
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| Summary: | Presents a study of crime fiction that takes a fresh look at its evolution, drawing on material from the Middle Ages onwards. This title explores the connections between revenge tragedies, the gothic, urban mysteries and anarchist fiction, and examines the influence of pseudo-sciences such as mesmerism and criminal anthropology. |
| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references (S. 197-212) and index |
| Physical Description: | XV, 222 S. |
| ISBN: | 9780230525009 0230525008 9780230594623 023059462X |
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| adam_text | Contents
Acknowledgements
viii
Introduction x
1
Revising the Canon of Crime and Detection
1
From detective to crime fiction
5
Blurring the boundaries
8
A glance at the present
11
Parti Supernatural and Gothic
2
Detection before Detection
17
Dreams and detection
19
Ghosts, politics and revenge
21
Providential fictions
26
Crime literature between tragedy and comedy
31
The Newgate Calendars
34
Towards the professional case
37
The aesthetics of murder
39
3
Persecution and Omniscience
41
The enlightened ideal of secular omniscience
42
The dark side of omniscience
45
Preternatural powers
46
Probability vs chance
50
Secret societies, the city and the sublime
52
4
¥łctarian
Ghosts and Revengers
55
A ghost story of crime and detection
56
Dreams, dead witnesses and daring women
58
The return of the revenger
63
5
Pseudo-Sciences and the occult
66
Mesmerism, murder and mystery
69
Mesmeric
villates
72
The other Boyle
75
vi
Contents
Towards psychic detection
77
Professionals of the occult
82
Fabricated apparitions
^7
Partii
Sensational
6
The Language of
Auguste
Dupin
93
Narrative metamorphoses
93
Citizens of
Cosmopolis
96
An American and Paris 98
The strange case of Wiffie Coffins and M. Forgues
103
M. Gaboriau and the unknown public
106
A metropolitan genesis I®7
7
On the Sensational in Literature HO
Between romance and journalism
110
The sensation recipe
П4
Women as sensation writers and readers
116
Sensationalism, degeneration and modernity
117
Sensational canons H8
A prophecy
122
From amateur to professional detective
124
Parodies and adaptations
127
8
London as a Heart of Datkaess
133
Exotic colonies
135
The explorer
137
The ethnologist
139
The missionary
140
The city disease
141
Before the apocalypse
143
9
The Ihetortc of Atavism and Degeneration
145
Lombroso s anarchists and saints
148
Between genius and madness
149
The shady apostle of degeneration
150
Decadent detectives
152
Conclusion: the Age of Formula Fiction
156
The Sherlock Holmes myth
156
Nightmares and orthodoxy
159
Contents
vii
Britain
under threat
161
Towards a conservative view of detection
165
The role of anthologies
167
Detection and modernism
170
Reading in the age of Cultural Studies
172
Notes
175
Bibliography
197
Index
213
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