Detective Fiction and the Rise of Forensic Science by Ronald Thomas

Detective Fiction and the Rise of Forensic Science by Ronald Thomas

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.

'This is a persuasive, original and stimulating work …' The Times Literary Supplement
'Generously illustrated … and lucidly written, it is a forceful and persuasive analysis of the creative dialogue between forensic science, criminology, and detective fiction' English
'Detective Fiction and the Rise of Forensic Science is a major achievement.' Semiotica

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ISBN 13	9780521527620
ISBN 10	0521527627
Titel	Detective Fiction and the Rise of Forensic Science
Autor	Ronald Thomas
Serie	Cambridge Studies In Nineteenth-Century Literature And Culture
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Cambridge University Press
Erscheinungsjahr	2004-01-22
Seitenanzahl	364
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