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Late Victorian Crime Fiction in the Shadows of Sherlock C. Clarke

Late Victorian Crime Fiction in the Shadows of Sherlock By C. Clarke

Late Victorian Crime Fiction in the Shadows of Sherlock by C. Clarke

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This book investigates the development of crime fiction in the 1880s and 1890s, challenging studies of late-Victorian crime fiction which have given undue prominence to a handful of key figures and have offered an over-simplified analytical framework, thereby overlooking the generic, moral, and formal complexities of the nascent genre.

Late Victorian Crime Fiction in the Shadows of Sherlock Summary

Late Victorian Crime Fiction in the Shadows of Sherlock by C. Clarke

This book investigates the development of crime fiction in the 1880s and 1890s, challenging studies of late-Victorian crime fiction which have given undue prominence to a handful of key figures and have offered an over-simplified analytical framework, thereby overlooking the generic, moral, and formal complexities of the nascent genre.

Late Victorian Crime Fiction in the Shadows of Sherlock Reviews

Clarke also subjects the texts she investigates to a systematic and nuanced analysis, revealing their reflection of contemporary social reality, larger disputed issues, tensions, anxieties, and concerns. Indeed, there are many more forgotten detective narratives that lend themselves to this type of analysis, and are yet to be explored. (Haia Shpayer-Makov, Victorian Studies, Vol. 58 (4), 2016)

'This rigorous and passionate book will make you want to sprint to Project Gutenberg in search of the texts, as well as give you a keen appreciation of just why Victorian magazine editors vied to find the next Arthur Conan Doyle.' - Times Higher Education

About C. Clarke

Clare Clarke is Assistant Professor of Nineteenth-Century Literature at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. She specialises in detective fiction and the literature and culture of the late-Victorian era. Her research has been published in CLUES, Women's Writing, and Victorian Literature and Culture.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1. 'Ordinary Secret Sinners': Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886). 2. 'The most popular book of modern times': Fergus Hume's The Mystery of a Hansom Cab (1886). 3. 'L'homme c'est rien - l'oeuvre c'est tout': the Sherlock Holmes stories and work. 4. Something for 'the silly season': Policing and the Press in Israel Zangwill's The Big Bow Mystery (1891). 5. Tales of 'mean streets': the criminal-detective in Arthur Morrison's The Dorrington Deed-Box (1897). 6. A Criminal in Disguise': class and empire in Guy Boothby's A Prince of Swindlers (1897). Conclusion Works Cited Index

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NPB9780230390539
9780230390539
0230390536
Late Victorian Crime Fiction in the Shadows of Sherlock by C. Clarke
C. Clarke
Crime Files
New
Hardback
Palgrave Macmillan
2014-09-26
221
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