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Victorian Detective Fiction and the Nature of Evidence

Victorian Detective Fiction and the Nature of Evidence PDF Author: L. Frank
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1403919321
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260

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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.