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基本説明
New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2007. Takes a new look at the evolution of crime fiction, drawing on material from the Middle Ages up to the early Twentieth century, when the genre was theoretically defined as detective fiction.
Full Description
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.
Contents
Acknowledgements Introduction Revising the Canon of Crime and Detection PART I: SUPERNATURAL AND GOTHIC Detection Before Detection Persecution and Omniscience Victorian Ghosts and Revengers Pseudo-Sciences and the Occult PART II: SENSATIONAL The Language of Auguste Dupin On the Sensational in Literature London as a 'Heart of Darkness' The Rhetoric of Atavism and Degeneration The Age of Formula Fiction Bibliography Index