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by Ronald R. Thomas

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This is the first book about the relationship between the development of forensic science in the nineteenth century and the new literary genre of detective fiction in Britain and America--from Poe, Dickens and Hawthorne through Twain and Conan Doyle to Hammett, Chandler and Christie. Ronald R. Thomas is especially concerned with the authority the literary detective manages to secure through the "devices"--fingerprinting, photography, lie detectors--and the way in which those devices relate to broader questions of cultural authority at decisive moments in the history of the genre.

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  • Title Detective Fiction and the Rise of Forensic Science
  • Author Ronald R. Thomas
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 362
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom
  • Publication date 2000-02-13
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780521653039 / 0521653037
  • Weight 1.3 lbs (0.59 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.27 x 6.27 x 1.01 in (23.55 x 15.93 x 2.57 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 19th Century
    • Cultural Region: British
  • Category Literature - Classics / Criticism
  • Library of Congress subjects Detective and mystery stories, English -, Detective and mystery stories, American -
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 99011713
  • Dewey Decimal Code 823.087

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