This is a 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' ...
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This is a 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.
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Volume 26. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has soft covers. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 650grams, ISBN: 9780521527620.
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Volume 26. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has soft covers. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 650grams, ISBN: 9780521527620.
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New. Print on demand Trade paperback (US). Contains: Halftones. Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture . 30 b/w illus. Intended for professional and scholarly audience.
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Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. Book Bright, crisp pictorial dust jacket. Solid black boards with sharp corners, bright gilt lettering to spine strip, clean, unmarked pages throughout. 1st edition. Warmly inscribed by author on front end paper to previous owner. Author's signature on title page. From the library of noted author and professor of literature, Jan Cohn.
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New. Trade paperback (US). Contains: Halftones. Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture . 30 b/w illus. Intended for professional and scholarly audience.
