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Detective Fiction and the Rise of Forensic Science

Detective Fiction and the Rise of Forensic Science

Thomas, Ronald R.

Hardcover

Series: Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Cultu, Book 26

Literary CriticismSports General

ISBN10: 0521653037
ISBN13: 9780521653039
Publisher: Cambridge
Published: Feb 13 2000
Pages: 362
Weight: 1.30
Height: 1.01 Width: 6.27 Depth: 9.27
Language: English
This is the first book about the relationship between the development of forensic science in the nineteenth century and the new literary genre of detective fiction in Britain and America--from Poe, Dickens and Hawthorne through Twain and Conan Doyle to Hammett, Chandler and Christie. Ronald R. Thomas is especially concerned with the authority the literary detective manages to secure through the devices--fingerprinting, photography, lie detectors--and the way in which those devices relate to broader questions of cultural authority at decisive moments in the history of the genre.

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