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- catalog abstract ""This study 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 in a form of intellectual paleontology, tracing the genealogy of a genre through a model based on the Origin of Species read as a form of postmodern historiography. It places detective fiction within the context of popular scientific texts by John Pringle Nichol, Robert Chambers, Winwood Reade, 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 of the 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."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12948737.
- catalog created "2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2003.".
- catalog description ""The Murders in the Rue Morgue": Edgar Allan Poe's Evolutionary Reverie -- "The GoldBug", Hieroglyphics, and the Historical Imagination -- Bleak House, the Nebular Hypothesis, and a Crisis in Narrative -- News from the Dead: Archaeology, Detection and The Mystery of Edwin Drood -- 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" -- Notes -- Index.".
- catalog description ""This study 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 in a form of intellectual paleontology, tracing the genealogy of a genre through a model based on the Origin of Species read as a form of postmodern historiography. It places detective fiction within the context of popular scientific texts by John Pringle Nichol, Robert Chambers, Winwood Reade, 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 of the 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."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 208-240) and index.".
- catalog extent "x, 249 p. :".
- catalog identifier "1403911398".
- catalog isPartOf "Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "2003.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Palgrave Macmillan,".
- catalog spatial "English-speaking countries".
- catalog spatial "English-speaking countries.".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain".
- catalog subject "823/.08720908 21".
- catalog subject "Detective and mystery stories, American History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Detective and mystery stories, English History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. Bleak House.".
- catalog subject "Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. Mystery of Edwin Drood.".
- catalog subject "Doyle, Arthur Conan, 1859-1930 Characters Sherlock Holmes.".
- catalog subject "Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 Characters Sherlock Holmes.".
- catalog subject "English fiction 19th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Evidence, Criminal, in literature.".
- catalog subject "Forensic sciences English-speaking countries History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Forensic sciences Great Britain History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Holmes, Sherlock (Fictitious character)".
- catalog subject "Holmes, Sherlock.".
- catalog subject "Literature and science English-speaking countries.".
- catalog subject "Literature and science Great Britain History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "PR878.D4 F73 2003".
- catalog subject "Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 Fictional works.".
- catalog subject "Popular literature English-speaking countries History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Private investigators in literature.".
- catalog subject "Science in literature.".
- catalog tableOfContents ""The Murders in the Rue Morgue": Edgar Allan Poe's Evolutionary Reverie -- "The GoldBug", Hieroglyphics, and the Historical Imagination -- Bleak House, the Nebular Hypothesis, and a Crisis in Narrative -- News from the Dead: Archaeology, Detection and The Mystery of Edwin Drood -- 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" -- Notes -- Index.".
- catalog title "Victorian detective fiction and the nature of evidence : the scientific investigations of Poe, Dickens, and Doyle / Lawrence Frank.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".