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Late-Victorian crime fiction in the shadows of Sherlock / Clare Clarke.

By: Clarke, Clare.
Series: Crime files.Publisher: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014Description: 1 volume. : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm.ISBN: 9780230390539 :; 0230390536 :.Subject(s): Detective and mystery stories, English -- History and criticism | English fiction -- History and criticism -- 19th century
Contents:
'Ordinary Secret Sinners' : Robert Louis Stevenson's "Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" (1886) -- 'The most popular book of modern times' : Fergus Hume's "The Mystery of a Hansom Cab" (1886) -- '"L'homme c'est rien - l'oeuvre c'est tout"' : the Sherlock Holmes stories and work -- Something for 'the silly season' : Policing and the Press in Israel Zangwill's "The Big Bow Mystery "(1891) -- Tales of 'mean streets' : the criminal-detective in Arthur Morrison's "The Dorrington Deed-Box" (1897) -- A Criminal in Disguise' : class and empire in Guy Boothby's "A Prince of Swindlers" (1897).
Summary: This book investigates the development of crime fiction in the 1880s and 1890s, challenging studies of late-Victorian crime fiction which have given undue prominence to a handful of key figures and have offered an over-simplified analytical framework, thereby overlooking the generic, moral, and formal complexities of the nascent genre.

This book investigates the development of crime fiction in the 1880s and 1890s, challenging studies of late-Victorian crime fiction which have given undue prominence to a handful of key figures and have offered an over-simplified analytical framework, thereby overlooking the generic, moral, and formal complexities of the nascent genre.

'Ordinary Secret Sinners' : Robert Louis Stevenson's "Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" (1886) -- 'The most popular book of modern times' : Fergus Hume's "The Mystery of a Hansom Cab" (1886) -- '"L'homme c'est rien - l'oeuvre c'est tout"' : the Sherlock Holmes stories and work -- Something for 'the silly season' : Policing and the Press in Israel Zangwill's "The Big Bow Mystery "(1891) -- Tales of 'mean streets' : the criminal-detective in Arthur Morrison's "The Dorrington Deed-Box" (1897) -- A Criminal in Disguise' : class and empire in Guy Boothby's "A Prince of Swindlers" (1897).

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