A counter-history of crime fiction : supernatural, Gothic, sensational / Maurizio Ascari.
A counter-history of crime fiction : supernatural, Gothic, sensational / Maurizio Ascari.
A counter-history of crime fiction : supernatural, Gothic, sensational / Maurizio Ascari.
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Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Date
2007.
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N823.0872/32
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English
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xv, 222 p. ; 22 cm.
Contents
1. Revising the canon of crime and detection -- Pt. I. Supernatural and gothic -- 2. Detection before detection -- 3. Persecution and omniscience -- 4. Victorian ghosts and revengers -- 5. Pseudo-science and the occult -- Pt. II. Sensational -- 6. The language of Auguste Dupin -- 7. On the sensation...
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Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
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England
Date Published
2007.
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"A Counter-History of Crime Fiction takes a new look at the evolution of crime fiction, drawing on 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 interrelated, even incestuous, sub-genres, Maurizio Ascari explores the connecti...
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A counter-history of crime fiction : supernatural, Gothic, sensational / Maurizio Ascari.
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Crime files.
Crime files.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N823.0872/32
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74VK3o3RD0JX
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0230525008 (hbk.) :
9780230525009 (hbk.) :
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823.087209
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991023847879702626
