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Cambridge University Press Detective Fiction and the Rise of Forensic Science: 26 (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture, Series Number 26)

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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 interdisciplinary project, framing readings of literary texts with an analysis of contemporaneous developments in criminology, the rules of evidence, and modern scientific accounts of identity.

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Brand: Cambridge University Press
Format: paperback
ASIN: 0521527627
Category: Books > Subjects > Business, Finance & Law > Law
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 22 January 2004
Listed Since: 08 January 2007

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