Victorian detective fiction and the nature of evidence [electronic resource] : the scientific investigations of Poe, Dickens, and Doyle / Lawrence Frank.

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Published: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.
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Main Author:
Frank, Lawrence, 1933-
Series:Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture
Subjects:
Doyle, Arthur Conan, > 1859-1930 > Characters > Sherlock Holmes.
Dickens, Charles, > 1812-1870. > Mystery of Edwin Drood.
Poe, Edgar Allan, > 1809-1849 > Fictional works.
Dickens, Charles, > 1812-1870. > Bleak House.
Holmes, Sherlock.
Detective and mystery stories, English > History and criticism.
Literature and science > English-speaking countries.
Detective and mystery stories, American > History and criticism.
Popular literature > English-speaking countries > History and criticism.
Forensic sciences > English-speaking countries > History > 19th century.
English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
Private investigators in literature.
Evidence, Criminal, in literature.
Science in literature.
Format: Electronic eBook
Victorian detective fiction and the nature of evidence the scientific investigations of Poe, Dickens, and Doyle /
Table of Contents:
  • Edgar Allan Poe
  • "The Murders in the Rue Morgue": Edgar Allan Poe's Evolutionary Reverie
  • "The Gold-Bug," Hieroglyphics, and the Historical Imagination
  • Charles Dickens
  • Bleak House, the Nebular Hypothesis and a Crisis in Narrative
  • News from the Dead: Archaeology, Detection, and The Mystery of Edwin Drood
  • Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Sherlock Holmes and "The Book of Life"
  • Reading the Gravel Page: Lyell, Darwin, and Doyle
  • The Hound of the Baskervilles, the Man on the Tor, and a Metaphor for the Mind
  • Epilogue: A Retrospection.

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