紀錄類型: |
書目-語言資料,印刷品
: Monograph/item
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杜威分類號: |
823/.08720908 |
書名/作者: |
Victorian detective fiction and the nature of evidence : the scientific investigations of Poe, Dickens, and Doyle // Lawrence Frank. |
作者: |
Frank, Lawrence, |
出版者: |
Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; : Palgrave Macmillan,, 2003. |
面頁冊數: |
x, 249 p. : : ill. ;; 23 cm. |
標題: |
Detective and mystery stories, English - History and criticism. |
標題: |
Literature and science - English-speaking countries. |
標題: |
Detective and mystery stories, American - History and criticism. |
標題: |
Popular literature - History and criticism. - English-speaking countries |
標題: |
Forensic sciences - History - 19th century. - English-speaking countries |
標題: |
English fiction - History and criticism. - 19th century |
標題: |
Holmes, Sherlock (Fictitious character) |
標題: |
Private investigators in literature. |
標題: |
Evidence, Criminal, in literature. |
標題: |
Science in literature. |
標題: |
Misdaadromans. |
標題: |
Victoriaanse tijd. |
標題: |
Bewijsstukken. |
標題: |
Roman policier anglais - Histoire et critique. |
標題: |
Littâerature et sciences - Histoire - 19e siáecle. - Grande-Bretagne |
標題: |
Roman policier amâericain - Histoire et critique. |
標題: |
Criminalistique - Histoire - 19e siáecle. - Grande-Bretagne |
標題: |
Roman anglais - Histoire et critique. - 19e siáecle |
標題: |
Holmes, Sherlock (Personnage fictif) |
標題: |
Preuve (Droit pâenal), dans la littâerature. |
標題: |
Sciences dans la littâerature. |
ISBN: |
9780230279704 |
ISBN: |
0230279708 |
書目註: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 208-240) and index. |
內容註: |
PART I: EDGAR ALLAN POE -- 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue': Edgar Allan Poe's Evolutionary Reverie -- 'The Gold-Bug', Hieroglyphics, and the Historical Imagination -- PART II: CHARLES DICKENS -- Bleak House, the Nebular Hypothesis, and a Crisis in Narrative -- News from the Dead: Archaeology,Detection and The Mystery of Edwin Drood -- PART III: ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE -- Sherlock Holmes and 'The Book of Life' -- Reading theGravel Page: Lyell, Darwin and Doyle -- The Hound of the Baskervilles,the Man on the Tor, and a Metaphor for the Mind -- Epilogue: 'A Retrospection'. |
摘要、提要註: |
This study, now available in paperback, is an original contribution to nineteenth-century literary and cultural studies in its methodology,its subject matter, and its vision of detective fiction. It engages ina form of intellectual palaeontology, tracing the genealogy of a genrethrough a model based on the Origin of Species read as a form of postmodern historiography. It places detective fiction within the context ofpopular scientific texts by John Pringle Nichol, Robert Chambers, WinwoodReade, and John Tyndall, as well as the writings of Charles Lyell, Charles Darwin and Thomas Huxley. Frank does not treat detective fiction only as the symptom of a prevailing ideology, but investigates it as a genre promoting a secular worldview in a time of competing visions ofthe universe and the human situation. Such an approach necessitates close readings of scientific and literary texts that, through explicit and implicit allusions to cosmology, philology, geology, paleontology, archaeology, and evolutionary biology, reveal their ultimate seriousness and heterodoxy. |
電子資源: |
access to fulltext (Palgrave) |