Detective Fiction and the Rise of Forensic Science - Couverture rigide

Thomas, Ronald R.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0521653037 ISBN 13 : 9780521653039

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2000

Synopsis

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 way in which those devices relate to broader questions of cultural authority at decisive moments in the history of the genre. This is an interdisciplinary project, framing readings of literary texts with an analysis of contemporaneous developments in criminology, the rules of evidence, and modern scientific accounts of identity.

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0521653037
• ISBN 13: 9780521653039
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 362
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Cambridge University Press; https://www.cambridge.org/; ; Via Honduras,15; Pomezia; Italia; 71; Italie