06081nam 22008895 450 991078109230332120200920001010.00-230-23453-410.1057/9780230234536(CKB)2550000000001593(EBL)2057780(OCoLC)319175171(SSID)ssj0000517697(PQKBManifestationID)12194968(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000517697(PQKBWorkID)10488168(PQKB)10766624(SSID)ssj0000495649(PQKBManifestationID)11298632(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000495649(PQKBWorkID)10475262(PQKB)11678635(DE-He213)978-0-230-23453-6(MiAaPQ)EBC2057780(EXLCZ)99255000000000159320151030d2007 u| 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrA Counter-History of Crime Fiction[electronic resource] Supernatural, Gothic, Sensational /by Maurizio Ascari1st ed. 2007.London :Palgrave Macmillan UK :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2007.1 online resource (240 p.)Crime FilesDescription based upon print version of record.0-230-59462-X 0-230-52500-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.""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""; ""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""""E""""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Z""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.Crime FilesFictionLiterature—PhilosophyCulture—Study and teachingLiterature, Modern—20th centuryLiterature, ModernLiterature, Modern—19th centuryFictionhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/825000Literary Theoryhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/812000Cultural Theoryhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/411130Twentieth-Century Literaturehttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/822000Early Modern/Renaissance Literaturehttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/817000Nineteenth-Century Literaturehttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/821000Fiction.Literature—Philosophy.Culture—Study and teaching.Literature, Modern—20th century.Literature, Modern.Literature, Modern—19th century.Fiction.Literary Theory.Cultural Theory.Twentieth-Century Literature.Early Modern/Renaissance Literature.Nineteenth-Century Literature.823.087209Ascari Maurizioauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut165208BOOK9910781092303321A Counter-History of Crime Fiction3841256UNINA