Detective Fiction and the Rise of Forensic Science (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture, Series Number 26) by Thomas, Ronald R

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Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Very bright clean hardcover in dustwrapper,small closed tear to bend bottom of front flap of wrapper 1¼ inches long. many photographs and illustrations accompany the text. A pleasing example of this book SEE IMAGES. DETAILED IMAGES AVAILABLE ON REQUEST . First Edition. Boards. Very Good/Very Good. 23.5 x 16 Cms. Hardcover.

-Cambridge University Press (1999)-. Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture, Series Number 26. First edition first impression 1999. xviii+341 pages. Illustrated. Cloth. Very good indeed in dustjacket. 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… Read More

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Cambridge Univ Pr, 2000. Hardcover. New. 341 pages. 9.50x6.25x1.00 inches.