A counter-history of crime fiction[e...
Ascari, Maurizio.

 

  • A counter-history of crime fiction[electronic resource] :supernatural, gothic, sensational /
  • 紀錄類型: 書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
    杜威分類號: 823/.087209
    書名/作者: A counter-history of crime fiction : supernatural, gothic, sensational // Maurizio Ascari.
    作者: Ascari, Maurizio.
    出版者: Basingstoke [England] ; : Palgrave Macmillan,, 2007.
    面頁冊數: xv, 222 p. ;; 23 cm.
    叢書名: Crime files series
    標題: Detective and mystery stories, English - History and criticism.
    標題: Supernatural in literature.
    標題: Sensationalism in literature.
    ISBN: 9780230234536
    ISBN: 0230234534
    書目註: Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-212) and index.
    內容註: Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Revising the Canon of Crime and Detection -- PART I: SUPERNATURAL AND GOTHIC -- Detection Before Detection -- Persecution and Omniscience -- Victorian Ghostsand Revengers --Pseudo-Sciences and the Occult -- PART II: SENSATIONAL -- The Languageof Auguste Dupin -- On the Sensational in Literature -- London as a 'Heart of Darkness' -- The Rhetoric of Atavism and Degeneration -- The Age of Formula Fiction -- Bibliography -- Index.
    摘要、提要註: A Counter-History of Crime Fiction takes a new look at the evolutionof crime fiction, drawingon material from the Middle Ages up to the early twentieth century, when the genre was theoretically defined as detective fiction. Considering 'criminography' as a system of inter-related, even incestuous, sub-genres, Maurizio Ascari explores the connections between modes of literature such as revenge tragedies and providential fictions, the gothic and the ghost story, urban mysteries and anarchist fiction, while taking into account the influence of pseudo-sciences such as mesmerism and criminal anthropology. The result is a fascinating inquiry into the nature of a genre whose formulaic nature has not prevented imaginative, not to say heretical, variations on the themes of crime and detection. Theoretically informed, with an innovative approachto its subject matter, and written in an accessible style, A Counter-History of Crime Fiction is essential reading for those researching in, studying, or just intrigued by crime fiction and its development.
    電子資源: access to fulltext (Palgrave)
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