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Autore |
Clarke C |
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Titolo |
Late Victorian Crime Fiction in the Shadows of Sherlock / / by C. Clarke |
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London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2014 |
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ISBN |
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1-349-35130-X |
0-230-39054-4 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed. 2014.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (230 p.) |
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Collana |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Fiction |
Literature—Philosophy |
Culture—Study and teaching |
Literature—History and criticism |
Literary Theory |
Cultural Theory |
Literary History |
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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; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 'Ordinary Secret Sinners': Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886); 2 'The Most Popular Book of Modern Times': Fergus Hume's The Mystery of a Hansom Cab (1886); 3 'L'homme c'est rien - l'oeuvre c'est tout': The Sherlock Holmes Stories and Work; 4 Something for 'the Silly Season': Policing and the Press in Israel Zangwill's The Big Bow Mystery (1891); 5 Tales of 'Mean Streets': The Criminal-Detective in Arthur Morrison's The Dorrington Deed-Box (1897) |
6 'A Criminal in Disguise': Class and Empire in Guy Boothby's A Prince of Swindlers (1897)Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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. |
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