Detective fiction and the rise of forensic science / Ronald R. Thomas.
Detective fiction and the rise of forensic science / Ronald R. Thomas.
Detective fiction and the rise of forensic science / Ronald R. Thomas.
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Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Date
1999.
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N823.0872/20
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English
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xviii, 341 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
1. The devices of truth -- 2. The lie detector and the thinking machine -- 3. The unequal voice in "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" -- 4. The letter of the law in The Woman in White -- 5. The criminal type in "A Case of Identity" -- 6. The voice of America in Red Harvest -- 7. The mug shot and the ma...
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Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999.
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England
Date Published
1999.
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Summary
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."--BOOK JACKET....
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Detective fiction and the rise of forensic science / Ronald R. Thomas.
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Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 26.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 323-334) and index.
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N823.0872/20
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0521527627 (pbk.)
9780521653039 (hardback)
0521653037 (hardback)
9780521653039(hardback)
0521653037(hardback)
9780521653039(hardback) :
0521653037(hardback) :
9780521653039 (hardback) :
0521653037 (hardback) :
9780521527620 (pbk.)
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823.087209
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991013033309702626
