Detective Fiction and the Rise of Forensic Science
This is a book about the relationship between the development of forensic science in the nineteenth century and the invention of the new literary genre of detective fiction in Britain and America. Ronald R. Thomas examines the criminal body as a site of interpretation and enforcement in a wide range of fictional examples, from Poe, Dickens and Hawthorne through Twain and Conan Doyle to Hammett, Chandler and Christie. He is especially concerned with the authority the literary detective manages to secure through the 'devices' - fingerprinting, photography, lie detectors - with which he discovers the truth and establishes his expertise, and the…
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Weitere Autoren: Ronald R., Thomas / Beer, Gillian (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-521-52762-0
- EAN: 9780521527620
- Produktnummer: 9676437
- Verlag: Cambridge University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2003
- Seitenangabe: 364 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D2.1 cm 559 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 559
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