Detective Fiction and the Rise of Forensic Science (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture)

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Author	:	Ronald R. Thomas
Rating	:	4.29 (751 Votes)
Asin	:	0521653037
Format Type	:	paperback
Number of Pages	:	362 Pages
Publish Date	:	2014-08-03
Language	:	English

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Excellent Book on Forensics Professor Excellent book. Detailed, full of information, very enjoyable. Highly recommend. I used it for a college crime in lit course, and the students found it extremely readable and enjoyable.

Thoams has read widely and well in literature and criminologyDetective Fiction and the Rise of Forensic Science is a rich and dense text with implicarions for contemporary forensic science" South Central Review"Offers a well-told and well-illustrated history." Studies in English Literature"Thomas subject is rich and varied" Albion . "This is a persuasive, original and stimulating work that more than achieves its most important goals." Alison Winter, Times Literary Supplement"The first study of the relationship between the creation of the detective story in the 19th century and the development of forensic science, this book argues that the new science not only gave the detective figure the authority to pursue his profession but also represented a broader cultural authority of the time." Choice"I can summarize his scholarly, but by no means dry or pedantic, book in his own words: "While the narratives of writers like Poe, Dickens and Conan Doyle often reflected and

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.. 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

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