Gothic Forensics
Criminal Investigative Procedure in Victorian Horror & Mystery
This book explores a number of foundational Victorian Gothic texts that have either predicted or prefigured key investigative methods used by police today. It also critically assesses the legislative, procedural, and forensic implications of crime fiction and horror produced during the Victorian era. Titles ranging from Bleak House to Dracula are demonstrated to be driving forces behind the professional standards and investigative methods used by police departments in the United States and United Kingdom, both then and now. Gothic Forensics explains how and why the Gothic served as the unlikely but irrefutable creative engine for advances in…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-137-56580-8
- EAN: 9781137565808
- Produktnummer: 20163535
- Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 253 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 3'021 KB
- Auflage: 1st ed. 2016
- Abbildungen: 2 schwarz-weiße und 1 farbige Abbildungen, 2 schwarz-weiße Tabellen, Bibliographie
Über den Autor
Michael Arntfield is Associate Professor in the Department of English & Writing Studies at Western University, Canada. He is also a fellow with the University of Toronto's Centre for Research in Forensic Semiotics, an academic and investigative advisor with the American Investigative Society of Cold Cases, and a previous Fulbright Chair at Vanderbilt University, USA. Formerly serving as a police officer and detective for over fifteen years, he now specializes in literary criminology and the criminal humanities. For more information, visit www.michaelarntfield.com.
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