Detective Fiction and the Rise of Forensic Science: 26 (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture, Series Number 26)

Thomas, Ronald

ISBN 10: 0521527627 / ISBN 13: 9780521527620

Published by Cambridge University Press, 2004

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The relationship between the development of forensic science and the new literary genre of detective fiction in Britain and America. Series Editor(s): Beer, Gillian. Series: Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature & Culture. Num Pages: 364 pages, 30 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 153 x 230 x 21. Weight in Grams: 564. . 2004. Revised ed. paperback. . . . .

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Detective Fiction and the Rise of Forensic Science: 26 (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture, Series Number 26)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521527627
• ISBN 13: 9780521527620
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

This is the first book about the relationship between the development of forensic science in the nineteenth century and the new literary genre of detective fiction in Britain and America--from Poe, Dickens and Hawthorne through Twain and Conan Doyle to Hammett, Chandler and Christie. Ronald R. Thomas is especially concerned with the authority the literary detective manages to secure through the "devices"--fingerprinting, photography, lie detectors--and the way in which those devices relate to broader questions of cultural authority at decisive moments in the history of the genre.

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