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A Counter-History of Crime Fiction [[electronic resource] ] : Supernatural, Gothic, Sensational / / by Maurizio Ascari
| A Counter-History of Crime Fiction [[electronic resource] ] : Supernatural, Gothic, Sensational / / by Maurizio Ascari |
| Autore | Ascari Maurizio |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2007.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2007 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (240 p.) |
| Disciplina | 823.087209 |
| Collana | Crime Files |
| Soggetto topico |
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 |
| ISBN | 0-230-23453-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
""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"" |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910781092303321 |
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| London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2007 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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A Counter-History of Crime Fiction : Supernatural, Gothic, Sensational / / by Maurizio Ascari
| A Counter-History of Crime Fiction : Supernatural, Gothic, Sensational / / by Maurizio Ascari |
| Autore | Ascari Maurizio |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2007.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2007 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (240 p.) |
| Disciplina | 823.087209 |
| Collana | Crime Files |
| Soggetto topico |
Fiction
Literature - Philosophy Culture - Study and teaching Literature, Modern - 20th century European literature - Renaissance, 1450-1600 Literature, Modern - 19th century Fiction Literature Literary Theory Cultural Theory Twentieth-Century Literature Early Modern and Renaissance Literature Nineteenth-Century Literature |
| ISBN |
9780230234536
0230234534 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
""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"" |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910966619703321 |
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Ascari Maurizio
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| London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2007 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Sites of exchange [[electronic resource] ] : European crossroads and faultlines / / edited by Maurizio Ascari and Adriana Corrado
| Sites of exchange [[electronic resource] ] : European crossroads and faultlines / / edited by Maurizio Ascari and Adriana Corrado |
| Autore | Ascari Maurizio |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; New York, : Rodopi, 2006 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (297 p.) |
| Disciplina | 940 |
| Collana | Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft |
| Soggetto topico |
Comparative literature
European literature - History and criticism Travel in literature |
| ISBN |
94-012-0307-5
1-4294-5633-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. The Grand Tour and the Mediterranean; 2. Water and Cultural Memory; 3. Literature and Cityscapes; 4. Borders and Conflicts; Concluding Remarks; Notes on Contributors |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910777870703321 |
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Ascari Maurizio
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| Amsterdam ; ; New York, : Rodopi, 2006 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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