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UNINA9910781092303321 |
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Autore |
Ascari Maurizio |
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Titolo |
A Counter-History of Crime Fiction [[electronic resource] ] : Supernatural, Gothic, Sensational / / by Maurizio Ascari |
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London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2007 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed. 2007.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (240 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Fiction |
Literature—Philosophy |
Culture—Study and teaching |
Literature, Modern—20th century |
Literature, Modern |
Literature, Modern—19th century |
Literary Theory |
Cultural Theory |
Twentieth-Century Literature |
Early Modern/Renaissance Literature |
Nineteenth-Century Literature |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Introduction""; ""1 Revising the Canon of Crime and Detection""; ""From detective to crime fiction""; ""Blurring the boundaries""; ""A glance at the present""; ""Part I: Supernatural and Gothic""; ""2 Detection before Detection""; ""Dreams and detection""; ""Ghosts, politics and revenge""; ""'Providential fictions'""; ""Crime literature between tragedy and comedy""; ""The Newgate Calendars""; ""Towards the 'professional case'""; ""The aesthetics of murder""; ""3 Persecution and Omniscience""; ""The enlightened ideal of 'secular omniscience'"" |
""The dark side of omniscience""""Preternatural powers""; ""Probability vs chance""; ""Secret societies, the city and the sublime""; ""4 Victorian Ghosts and Revengers""; ""A 'ghost story' of crime and detection""; |
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""Dreams, dead witnesses and daring women""; ""The return of the revenger""; ""5 Pseudo-Sciences and the Occult""; ""Mesmerism, murder and mystery""; ""Mesmeric villains""; ""The 'other' Doyle""; ""Towards psychic detection""; ""Professionals of the occult""; ""Fabricated apparitions""; ""Part II: Sensational""; ""6 The Language of Auguste Dupin""; ""Narrative metamorphoses"" |
""Citizens of Cosmopolis""""An American and Paris""; ""The strange case of Wilkie Collins and M. Forgues""; ""M. Gaboriau and the 'unknown public'""; ""A metropolitan genesis""; ""7 On the Sensational in Literature""; ""Between romance and journalism""; ""The sensation recipe""; ""Women as sensation writers and readers""; ""Sensationalism, degeneration and modernity""; ""Sensational canons""; ""A prophecy""; ""From amateur to professional detective""; ""Parodies and adaptations""; ""8 London as a 'Heart of Darkness'""; ""Exotic colonies""; ""The explorer""; ""The ethnologist"" |
""The missionary""""The city disease""; ""Before the apocalypse""; ""9 The Rhetoric of Atavism and Degeneration""; ""Lombroso's anarchists and saints""; ""Between genius and madness""; ""The shady apostle of degeneration""; ""Decadent detectives""; ""Conclusion: the Age of Formula Fiction""; ""The Sherlock Holmes 'myth'""; ""Nightmares and orthodoxy""; ""Britain under threat""; ""Towards a conservative view of detection""; ""The role of anthologies""; ""Detection and modernism""; ""Reading in the age of Cultural Studies""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D"" |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This book takes a look at the evolution of crime fiction. Considering 'criminography' as a system of inter-related sub-genres, it explores the connections between modes of literature such as revenge tragedies, the gothic and anarchist fiction, while taking into account the influence of pseudo-sciences such as mesmerism and criminal anthropology. |
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