Late Victorian Crime Fiction in the Shadows of Sherlock / / by C. Clarke

• Autore: Clarke C
• Pubblicazione: London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2014
• Edizione: 1st ed. 2014.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (230 p.)
• Disciplina: 823.08720908
• Soggetto topico: Fiction; Literature—Philosophy; Culture—Study and teaching; Literature—History and criticism; Literary Theory; Cultural Theory; Literary History
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Late Victorian Crime Fiction in the Shadows of Sherlock
• ISBN: 1-349-35130-X; 0-230-39054-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910822280303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Crime Files