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- catalog abstract ""This is the first book about the relationship between the development of forensic science in the nineteenth century and the invention of the new literary genre of detective fiction in Britain and America. Ronald R. Thomas examines the criminal body as a site of interpretation and enforcement in a wide range of fictional examples, from Poe, Dickens and Hawthorne through Twain and Conan Doyle to Hammett, Chandler and Christie. He is especially concerned with the authority the literary detective manages to secure through the "devices"--Fingerprinting, photography, lie detectors - with which he discovers the truth and establishes his expertise, and the way in which those devices relate to broader questions of cultural authority at decisive moments in the history of the genre. This is an interdisciplinary project, framing readings of literary texts with an analysis of contemporaneous developments in criminology, the rules of evidence, and modern scientific accounts of identity."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11607251.
- catalog created "1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1999.".
- catalog description ""This is the first book about the relationship between the development of forensic science in the nineteenth century and the invention of the new literary genre of detective fiction in Britain and America. Ronald R. Thomas examines the criminal body as a site of interpretation and enforcement in a wide range of fictional examples, from Poe, Dickens and Hawthorne through Twain and Conan Doyle to Hammett, Chandler and Christie. He is especially concerned with the authority the literary detective manages to secure through the "devices"--Fingerprinting, photography, lie detectors - with which he discovers the truth and establishes his expertise, and the way in which those devices relate to broader questions of cultural authority at decisive moments in the history of the genre. This is an interdisciplinary project, framing readings of literary texts with an analysis of contemporaneous developments in criminology, the rules of evidence, and modern scientific accounts of identity."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-334) and index.".
- catalog description "The devices of truth -- The lie detector and the thinking machine -- The unequal voice in "The murders in the rue morgue" -- The letter of the law in The woman in white -- The criminal type in "A case of identity" -- The voice of America in Red harvest -- The mug shot and the magnifying glass -- Photographic memories in Bleak House -- Double exposures in The house of the seven gables -- Negative images in "A scandal in Bohemia" -- Empty cameras in The big sleep and Farewell, my lovely.".
- catalog description "The fingerprint and the map of crime -- Foreign bodies in A study in scarlet and The sign of four -- Accusing hands in Pudd'nhead Wilson -- International plots in The Maltese falcon and Murder on the Orient Express -- Missing persons and secret agents.".
- catalog extent "xviii, 341 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0521653037 (hardcover)".
- catalog isPartOf "Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 26".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press,".
- catalog spatial "English-speaking countries".
- catalog spatial "English-speaking countries.".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "823/.087209 21".
- catalog subject "Detective and mystery stories, American History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Detective and mystery stories, English History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Forensic sciences History.".
- catalog subject "Literature and science English-speaking countries.".
- catalog subject "Literature and science Great Britain History.".
- catalog subject "Literature and science United States History.".
- catalog subject "PR830.D4 T53 1999".
- catalog subject "Popular literature English-speaking countries History and criticism.".
- catalog tableOfContents "The devices of truth -- The lie detector and the thinking machine -- The unequal voice in "The murders in the rue morgue" -- The letter of the law in The woman in white -- The criminal type in "A case of identity" -- The voice of America in Red harvest -- The mug shot and the magnifying glass -- Photographic memories in Bleak House -- Double exposures in The house of the seven gables -- Negative images in "A scandal in Bohemia" -- Empty cameras in The big sleep and Farewell, my lovely.".
- catalog tableOfContents "The fingerprint and the map of crime -- Foreign bodies in A study in scarlet and The sign of four -- Accusing hands in Pudd'nhead Wilson -- International plots in The Maltese falcon and Murder on the Orient Express -- Missing persons and secret agents.".
- catalog title "Detective fiction and the rise of forensic science / Ronald R. Thomas.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".