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 centuryItem type | Current library | Home library | Shelving location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Books | American University in Dubai | American University in Dubai | Main Collection | PR 830 .D4 C529 2014 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 5127793 |
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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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