Victorian Detective Fiction and the Nature of Evidence by L Frank

Victorian Detective Fiction and the Nature of Evidence by L Frank

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.

'Frank's Victorian Detective Fiction will appeal to historians of science and literary scholars.. His analysis is extremely skilful, well written and convincingly argued'

- Anne Schwan, Journal of Victorian Culture

LAWRENCE FRANK is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Oklahoma, USA. He is the author of Charles Dickens and the Romantic Self and of essays on nineteenth-century British and American literature and culture that have appeared in various collections and journals, including American Imago, the Dickens Studies Annual, Essays in Criticism, Nineteenth-Century Literature, and Signs.

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ISBN 13	9780230230309
ISBN 10	023023030X
Title	Victorian Detective Fiction and the Nature of Evidence
Author	L Frank
Series	Palgrave Studies In Nineteenth-Century Writing And Culture
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
Year published	2003-07-02
Number of pages	249
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