A counter-history of crime fiction supernatural, gothic, sensational / [electronic resource] :

• 作者： Ascari, Maurizio.
• 其他作者：
  • Palgrave Connect (Online service)
• 出版： Basingstoke [England] ;New York : Palgrave Macmillan
• 叢書名： Crime files series
• 主題： Detective and mystery stories, English--History and criticism , Supernatural in literature , Sensationalism in literature , Electronic books.
• ISBN： 9780230234536 、 0230234534
• FIND@SFXID: CGU
• 資料類型: 電子書
• 內容註: Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-212) and index. Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Revising the Canon of Crime and Detection -- PART I: SUPERNATURAL AND GOTHIC -- Detection Before Detection -- Persecution and Omniscience -- Victorian Ghostsand Revengers --Pseudo-Sciences and the Occult -- PART II: SENSATIONAL -- The Languageof Auguste Dupin -- On the Sensational in Literature -- London as a 'Heart of Darkness' -- The Rhetoric of Atavism and Degeneration -- The Age of Formula Fiction -- Bibliography -- Index.
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• 摘要註: A Counter-History of Crime Fiction takes a new look at the evolutionof crime fiction, drawingon material from the Middle Ages up to the early twentieth century, when the genre was theoretically defined as detective fiction. Considering 'criminography' as a system of inter-related, even incestuous, sub-genres, Maurizio Ascari explores the connections between modes of literature such as revenge tragedies and providential fictions, the gothic and the ghost story, urban mysteries and anarchist fiction, while taking into account the influence of pseudo-sciences such as mesmerism and criminal anthropology. The result is a fascinating inquiry into the nature of a genre whose formulaic nature has not prevented imaginative, not to say heretical, variations on the themes of crime and detection. Theoretically informed, with an innovative approachto its subject matter, and written in an accessible style, A Counter-History of Crime Fiction is essential reading for those researching in, studying, or just intrigued by crime fiction and its development.
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