The nineteenth century periodical press and the development of detective fiction /
This book reimagines nineteenth-century detective fiction as a literary genre that was connected to, and nurtured by, contemporary periodical journalism. While "detective fiction" is almost universally accepted to have originated in the nineteenth century, a variety of widely-accepted scho...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Routledge,
[2021].
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| Series: | Routledge studies in nineteenth-century literature.
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| Summary: | This book reimagines nineteenth-century detective fiction as a literary genre that was connected to, and nurtured by, contemporary periodical journalism. While "detective fiction" is almost universally accepted to have originated in the nineteenth century, a variety of widely-accepted scholarly narratives of the genre's evolution neglect to connect it with the development of a free press. The volume traces how police officers, detectives, criminals and the criminal justice system were discussed in the pages of a variety of magazines and journals, and argues that this affected how the wider nineteenth-century society perceived organized law enforcement and detection. This, in turn, helped to shape detective fiction into the genre that we recognize today. The book also explores how periodicals and newspapers contained forgotten, non-canonical examples of "detective fiction," and that these texts can help complicate the narrative of the genre's evolution across the mid- to late nineteenth century. |
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| Physical Description: | viii, 245 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0367029618 9780367029616 |