Author: Clive Bloom
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 134919218X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 149
Book Description
Nineteenth-Century Suspense From Poe To Conan Doyle
Author: Clive Bloom
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 134919218X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 149
Book Description
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 134919218X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 149
Book Description
The New Windmill Book of Mystery Stories of the Nineteenth Century
Author: Robert Etty
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Publishers
ISBN: 9780435124335
Category : Detective and mystery stories
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
A collection of Victorian horror, suspense and mystery stories by such authors as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Wilkie Collins, Edgar Allan Poe, Bram Stoker, Guy de Maupassant. Suggested level: intermediate, secondary.
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Publishers
ISBN: 9780435124335
Category : Detective and mystery stories
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
A collection of Victorian horror, suspense and mystery stories by such authors as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Wilkie Collins, Edgar Allan Poe, Bram Stoker, Guy de Maupassant. Suggested level: intermediate, secondary.
The Rise of the Detective in Early Nineteenth-Century Popular Fiction
Author: Heather Worthington
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230506283
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
Detection existed in fiction long before Poe and Doyle. Its real origins lurk in the popular press of the early Nineteenth century, where the detective and the case were steadily developed. The well-known masters of early crime fiction, including Collins and Dickens, drew on this material, found in texts that have rarely been reprinted or even discussed. In this revealing book, Heather Worthington combines scholarly and archival study with theoretically informed analysis to unearth the foundations of detective fiction. This is essential reading for those researching in, studying, or just fascinated by crime fiction.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230506283
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
Detection existed in fiction long before Poe and Doyle. Its real origins lurk in the popular press of the early Nineteenth century, where the detective and the case were steadily developed. The well-known masters of early crime fiction, including Collins and Dickens, drew on this material, found in texts that have rarely been reprinted or even discussed. In this revealing book, Heather Worthington combines scholarly and archival study with theoretically informed analysis to unearth the foundations of detective fiction. This is essential reading for those researching in, studying, or just fascinated by crime fiction.
Twentieth-Century Suspense
Author: Clive Bloom
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349206784
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
This series aims to bring to academics, students and general readers the best contemporary criticism on neglected literary and cultural areas. This volume contains 17 critical essays on influential suspense writers of the 20th century.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349206784
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
This series aims to bring to academics, students and general readers the best contemporary criticism on neglected literary and cultural areas. This volume contains 17 critical essays on influential suspense writers of the 20th century.
The Nineteenth-century Novel
Author: Dennis Walder
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 0415238277
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
The essays in this collection show how the conventions of realism were transformed by new ideas about gender and race.
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 0415238277
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
The essays in this collection show how the conventions of realism were transformed by new ideas about gender and race.
Gothic: Nineteenth-century Gothic : at home with the vampire
Author: Fred Botting
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780415251150
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
This collection brings together key writings which convey the breadth of what is understood to be Gothic, and the ways in which it has produced, reinforced, and undermined received ideas about literature and culture. In addition to its interests in the late eighteenth-century origins of the form, this collection anthologizes path-breaking essays on most aspects of gothic production, including some of its nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first century manifestations across a broad range of cultural media.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780415251150
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
This collection brings together key writings which convey the breadth of what is understood to be Gothic, and the ways in which it has produced, reinforced, and undermined received ideas about literature and culture. In addition to its interests in the late eighteenth-century origins of the form, this collection anthologizes path-breaking essays on most aspects of gothic production, including some of its nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first century manifestations across a broad range of cultural media.
The Nineteenth-Century Novel: Identities
Author: Dennis Walder
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136750061
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 373
Book Description
The Nineteenth-Century Novel: Identities provides an ideal starting point for understanding gender in the novels of this period. It explores the place of fiction in constructing gender identity within society at large, considering Madame Bovary, Portrait of a Lady and The Woman in White. The book continues with a consideration of the novel at the fin de siecle, examining Dracula, The Awakening and Heart of Darkness. These fascinating essays illuminate the ways in which the conventions of realism were disrupted as much by anxieties surrounding colonialism, decadence, degeneration and the 'New Woman' as by those new ideas about human psychology which heralded the advent of psychoanalysis. The concepts which are crucial to the understanding of the literature and society of the nineteenth century are brilliantly explained and discussed in this essential volume.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136750061
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 373
Book Description
The Nineteenth-Century Novel: Identities provides an ideal starting point for understanding gender in the novels of this period. It explores the place of fiction in constructing gender identity within society at large, considering Madame Bovary, Portrait of a Lady and The Woman in White. The book continues with a consideration of the novel at the fin de siecle, examining Dracula, The Awakening and Heart of Darkness. These fascinating essays illuminate the ways in which the conventions of realism were disrupted as much by anxieties surrounding colonialism, decadence, degeneration and the 'New Woman' as by those new ideas about human psychology which heralded the advent of psychoanalysis. The concepts which are crucial to the understanding of the literature and society of the nineteenth century are brilliantly explained and discussed in this essential volume.
Victorian Detective Fiction and the Nature of Evidence
Author: L. Frank
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1403919321
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
Frank investigates an intertextual exchange between nineteenth-century historical disciplines (philology, cosmology, geology archaeology and evolutionary biology) and the detective fictions of Poe, Dickens, and Doyle. In responding to the writings of figures like Lyell, Darwin and E.B. Taylor, detective fiction initiated a transition from scriptural literalism and a prevailing Natural Theology to a naturalistic, secular worldview. In the process, detective fiction sceptically examined both the evidence such disciplines used and their narrative rendering of the world.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1403919321
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
Frank investigates an intertextual exchange between nineteenth-century historical disciplines (philology, cosmology, geology archaeology and evolutionary biology) and the detective fictions of Poe, Dickens, and Doyle. In responding to the writings of figures like Lyell, Darwin and E.B. Taylor, detective fiction initiated a transition from scriptural literalism and a prevailing Natural Theology to a naturalistic, secular worldview. In the process, detective fiction sceptically examined both the evidence such disciplines used and their narrative rendering of the world.
The Colonial Conan Doyle
Author: Catherine Wynne
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313013411
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Arthur Conan Doyle is often perceived as the quintessential Englishman, patriotically devoted to the Crown and the empire's defender and apologist. But such a relegation is both limiting and simplistic. Born in Scotland to Irish Catholic parents, Doyle's heritage is complex. His paternal grandfather, John Doyle, had originally left Ireland for London in the early 19th century; his father was committed to the cause of Irish separatism; and his uncle resigned from his position as main cartoonist for ^IPunch^R after the journal launched an attack on the Pope. Consequently, British imperialism, Irish nationalism, and Catholic allegiance converge uneasily in his works. This book examines the resulting tensions between imperialism and colonialism in his writings. It argues that his thematic obsessions with topography, race, psyche, and sexuality stem from his ambivalence toward his own heritage. The volume repositions Doyle and redresses current critical approaches that have seen him solely as the advocate of empire and have ignored his colonial background. It explores how his fictions occur within a colonial context, the complexity of which is evident in gothic tropes of shifting landscapes, disguised criminalities, spiritualism, and sexual anomalies and conflicts.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313013411
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Arthur Conan Doyle is often perceived as the quintessential Englishman, patriotically devoted to the Crown and the empire's defender and apologist. But such a relegation is both limiting and simplistic. Born in Scotland to Irish Catholic parents, Doyle's heritage is complex. His paternal grandfather, John Doyle, had originally left Ireland for London in the early 19th century; his father was committed to the cause of Irish separatism; and his uncle resigned from his position as main cartoonist for ^IPunch^R after the journal launched an attack on the Pope. Consequently, British imperialism, Irish nationalism, and Catholic allegiance converge uneasily in his works. This book examines the resulting tensions between imperialism and colonialism in his writings. It argues that his thematic obsessions with topography, race, psyche, and sexuality stem from his ambivalence toward his own heritage. The volume repositions Doyle and redresses current critical approaches that have seen him solely as the advocate of empire and have ignored his colonial background. It explores how his fictions occur within a colonial context, the complexity of which is evident in gothic tropes of shifting landscapes, disguised criminalities, spiritualism, and sexual anomalies and conflicts.
The Serious Pleasures of Suspense
Author: Caroline Levine
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 9780813922171
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Scholars have long recognized that narrative suspense dominates the formal dynamics of 19th-century British fiction. This study argues that various 19th-century thinkers - John Ruskin, Michael Faraday, Charlotte Bronte - saw suspense as a vehicle for a new approach to knowledge called "realism".
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 9780813922171
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Scholars have long recognized that narrative suspense dominates the formal dynamics of 19th-century British fiction. This study argues that various 19th-century thinkers - John Ruskin, Michael Faraday, Charlotte Bronte - saw suspense as a vehicle for a new approach to knowledge called "realism".