UID:
almahu_9949386791202882
Format:
1 online resource (viii, 245 pages) :
,
illustrations (black and white)
ISBN:
9780429671029
,
0429671024
,
9780429672514
,
0429672519
,
9780429019784
,
0429019785
,
9780429669538
,
0429669534
Series Statement:
Routledge studies in nineteenth-century literature
Content:
This book re-imagines nineteenth-century detective fiction as a literary genre that was connected to, and nurtured by, contemporary periodical journalism. Whilst detective fiction' is almost universally-accepted to have originated in the nineteenth century, a variety of widely-accepted scholarly narratives of the genre's evolution neglect to connect it with the development of a free press. The volume traces how police officers, detectives, criminals, and the criminal justice system were discussed in the pages of a variety of magazines and journals, and argues that this affected how the wider nineteenth-century society perceived organised law enforcement and detection. This, in turn, helped to shape detective fiction into the genre that we recognise today. The book also explores how periodicals and newspapers contained forgotten, non-canonical examples of detective fiction', and that these texts can help complicate the narrative of the genre's evolution across the mid- to late nineteenth century.
Note:
List of FiguresAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Victorian Policing and Victorian PeriodicalsPart 1: Policing and Crime in PeriodicalsChapter 1: Periodical Discourse on Policing: c. 1850-1875Chapter 2: 'A Condemned Cell with a View': Crime Journalism c. 1750-1880Part 2: Memoirs and SensationsChapter 3: '"Detective" literature, if it may be so called': The Police Officer and the Police MemoirChapter 4: 'The Romance of the Detective': Police Memoir Fiction and Sensation FictionPart 3: From Scandal to the Strand MagazineChapter 5: ' ... people are naturally distrustful of its future working': The 1877 Detective Scandal in the Victorian Mass MediaChapter 6: From 'Handsaw' to Holmes: Police Officers and Detectives in Late-Victorian JournalismConclusionIndex
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9780367029616
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
DOI:
10.4324/9780429019784
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780429019784
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