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Victorian Detective Fiction and the Nature of Evidence: The Scientific Investigations of Poe, Dickens, and Doyle

Victorian Detective Fiction and the Nature of Evidence: The Scientific Investigations of Poe, Dickens, and Doyle

Frank, L.

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Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 023023030X
ISBN13: 9780230230309
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Jul 2 2003
Pages: 249
Weight: 0.74
Height: 0.59 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Frank investigates an intertextual exchange between nineteenth-century historical disciplines (philology, cosmology, geology archaeology and evolutionary biology) and the detective fictions of Poe, Dickens, and Doyle. In responding to the writings of figures like Lyell, Darwin and E.B. Taylor, detective fiction initiated a transition from scriptural literalism and a prevailing Natural Theology to a naturalistic, secular worldview. In the process, detective fiction sceptically examined both the evidence such disciplines used and their narrative rendering of the world.

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