LEADER 06081nam 22008895 450 001 9910781092303321 005 20200920001010.0 010 $a0-230-23453-4 024 7 $a10.1057/9780230234536 035 $a(CKB)2550000000001593 035 $a(EBL)2057780 035 $a(OCoLC)319175171 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000517697 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12194968 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000517697 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10488168 035 $a(PQKB)10766624 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000495649 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11298632 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000495649 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10475262 035 $a(PQKB)11678635 035 $a(DE-He213)978-0-230-23453-6 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC2057780 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000001593 100 $a20151030d2007 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 12$aA Counter-History of Crime Fiction$b[electronic resource] $eSupernatural, Gothic, Sensational /$fby Maurizio Ascari 205 $a1st ed. 2007. 210 1$aLondon :$cPalgrave Macmillan UK :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2007. 215 $a1 online resource (240 p.) 225 1 $aCrime Files 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-230-59462-X 311 $a0-230-52500-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a""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'"" 327 $a""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"" 327 $a""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"" 327 $a""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"" 327 $a""E""""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Z"" 330 $aThis book takes a look at the evolution of crime fiction. Considering 'criminography' as a system of inter-related sub-genres, it explores the connections between modes of literature such as revenge tragedies, the gothic and anarchist fiction, while taking into account the influence of pseudo-sciences such as mesmerism and criminal anthropology. 410 0$aCrime Files 606 $aFiction 606 $aLiterature?Philosophy 606 $aCulture?Study and teaching 606 $aLiterature, Modern?20th century 606 $aLiterature, Modern 606 $aLiterature, Modern?19th century 606 $aFiction$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/825000 606 $aLiterary Theory$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/812000 606 $aCultural Theory$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/411130 606 $aTwentieth-Century Literature$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/822000 606 $aEarly Modern/Renaissance Literature$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/817000 606 $aNineteenth-Century Literature$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/821000 615 0$aFiction. 615 0$aLiterature?Philosophy. 615 0$aCulture?Study and teaching. 615 0$aLiterature, Modern?20th century. 615 0$aLiterature, Modern. 615 0$aLiterature, Modern?19th century. 615 14$aFiction. 615 24$aLiterary Theory. 615 24$aCultural Theory. 615 24$aTwentieth-Century Literature. 615 24$aEarly Modern/Renaissance Literature. 615 24$aNineteenth-Century Literature. 676 $a823.087209 700 $aAscari$b Maurizio$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0165208 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910781092303321 996 $aA Counter-History of Crime Fiction$93841256 997 $aUNINA