The Figure Of The Detective
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Figure On The Carpet Detective Fiction And Literature
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Author : Martin Priestman
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 1990-09-20
Figure On The Carpet Detective Fiction And Literature written by Martin Priestman and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990-09-20 with Fiction categories.
The Figure Of The Detective
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Author : Charles Brownson
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2014-01-23
The Figure Of The Detective written by Charles Brownson and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-23 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book begins with a history of the detective genre, coextensive with the novel itself, identifying the attitudes and institutions needed for the genre to emerge in its mature form around 1880. The theory of the genre is laid out along with its central theme of the getting and deployment of knowledge. Sherlock Holmes, the English Classic stories and their inheritors are examined in light of this theme and the balance of two forms of knowledge used in fictional detection—cool or rational, and warm or emotional. The evolution of the genre formula is driven by changes in the social climate in which it is embedded. These changes explain the decay of the English Classic and its replacement by noir, hardboiled and spy stories, to end in the cul-de-sac of the thriller and the nostalgic Neo-Classic. Possible new forms of the detective story are suggested.
Detective Fiction And Literature
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Author : Martin Priestman
language : en
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Release Date : 1991
Detective Fiction And Literature written by Martin Priestman and has been published by Palgrave Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Figure Of The Detective
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Author : Charles Brownson
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2014-01-02
The Figure Of The Detective written by Charles Brownson and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-02 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book begins with a history of the detective genre, coextensive with the novel itself, identifying the attitudes and institutions needed for the genre to emerge in its mature form around 1880. The theory of the genre is laid out along with its central theme of the getting and deployment of knowledge. Sherlock Holmes, the English Classic stories and their inheritors are examined in light of this theme and the balance of two forms of knowledge used in fictional detection--cool or rational, and warm or emotional. The evolution of the genre formula is driven by changes in the social climate in which it is embedded. These changes explain the decay of the English Classic and its replacement by noir, hardboiled and spy stories, to end in the cul-de-sac of the thriller and the nostalgic Neo-Classic. Possible new forms of the detective story are suggested.
The Dead Letter And The Figure Eight
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Author : Metta Fuller Victor
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2003-08-05
The Dead Letter And The Figure Eight written by Metta Fuller Victor and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-08-05 with Fiction categories.
Before Raymond Chandler, before Dorothy Sayers or Agatha Christie, there was Metta Fuller Victor, the first American author—man or woman—of a full-length detective novel. This novel, The Dead Letter, is presented here along with another of Victor’s mysteries, The Figure Eight. Both written in the 1860s and published under the name Seeley Regester, these novels show how—by combining conventions of the mystery form first developed by Edgar Allan Poe with those of the domestic novel—Victor pioneered the domestic detective story and paved the way for generations of writers to follow. In The Dead Letter, Henry Moreland is killed by a single stab to the back. Against a background of post–Civil War politics, Richard Redfield, a young attorney, helps Burton, a legendary New York City detective, unravel the crime. In The Figure Eight, Joe Meredith undertakes a series of adventures and assumes a number of disguises to solve the mystery of the murder of his uncle and regain the lost fortune of his angelic cousin.
Crime Fiction
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Author : Martin Priestman
language : en
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Release Date : 1998
Crime Fiction written by Martin Priestman and has been published by Liverpool University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Literary Collections categories.
A volume in the Writers and Their Work series, which draws upon recent thinking in English studies to introduce writers and their contexts. Each volume includes biographical material, an examination of recent criticism, a bibliography and a reappraisal of a major work by the writer.
With Links Of Steel Detective Carter Mystery
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Author : John R. Coryell
language : en
Publisher: DigiCat
Release Date : 2022-11-13
With Links Of Steel Detective Carter Mystery written by John R. Coryell and has been published by DigiCat this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-11-13 with Fiction categories.
With Links of Steel, or The Peril of the Unknown is considered to be amongst the best detective tales ever. It belongs to the series of celebrated Nick Carter detective stories. Two business partners are robbed off a small fortune in diamonds by a notorious Kilgore diamond gang, a trio of very shrewd and dare crooks. They immediately call famous New York detective Nick Carter and that is how begins one of the most stirring and extraordinary criminal cases that ever fell within the broad experience of the famous New York detective. Nick Carter is a famous private detective, a fictional character invented by John R. Coryell and Ormond G. Smith. This private detective from thriller classics has appeared in a variety of formats over more than a century. His father, Sin Carter, was also a detective and he taught young Nick some investigation techniques from early ages. After his father's death during one case, Nick takes over the investigation and continues to work as a detective. A master of disguise, Nick Carter spends most of the time under cover and keeps a low profile, based in an apartment on Madison Avenue in New York.
The Rivals Of Sherlock Holmes
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Author : Graeme Davis
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2019-06-04
The Rivals Of Sherlock Holmes written by Graeme Davis and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-04 with Fiction categories.
This masterful collection of seventeen classic mystery stories, dating from 1837 to 1914, traces the earliest history of popular detective fiction. Today, the figure of Sherlock Holmes towers over detective fiction like a colossus—but it was not always so. Edgar Allan Poe’s Dupin, the hero of “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” anticipated Holmes’ deductive reasoning by more than forty years. In A Study in Scarlet, the first of Holmes’ adventures, Doyle acknowledged his debt to Poe—and to Émile Gaboriau, whose thief-turned-detective Monsieur Lecoq debuted in France twenty years earlier. If Rue Morgue was the first true detective story in English, the title of the first full-length detective novel is more hotly contested. Among the possibilities are two books by Wilkie Collins—The Woman in White (1859) and The Moonstone (1868)—Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s The Trail of the Serpent (1861) or Aurora Floyd (1862), and The Notting Hill Mystery (1862-3) by the pseudonymous “Charles Felix.” As the early years of detective fiction gave way to two separate golden ages—hard-boiled tales in America and intricately-plotted “cozy” murders in Britain—and these new sub-genres went their own ways, their detectives still required the intelligence and clear-sightedness that characterized the earliest works of detective fiction: the trademarks of Sherlock Holmes, and of all the detectives featured in these pages.
The Legendary Detective
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Author : John Walton
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2015-11-10
The Legendary Detective written by John Walton and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-10 with History categories.
Private detectives and detective agencies played a major role in American history from 1870 to 1940. Pinkerton, Burns, Thiels, and the smaller independents were a multi-million dollar industry, hired out by many if not most American corporations, who needed services of surveillance, strike breaking, and labor espionage. Not only is John Walton's account the first sustained history of this industry, it is also the first book to trace the ways in which the private detective came to occupy a cherished place in popular imagination. Walton paints lively portraits of these mythical figures from Sherlock Holmes, the brilliant eccentric, to Sam Spade, the hard-boiled hero of Dashiell Hammett's best-selling tales. There's a great question lurking in here: how did pulp magazine editors shape the image of the hard-boiled private eye, and what sorts of interplay obtained between the actual records (agency files, memoirs) of these motley individuals in real life and the legend of the private detective in mass-market fiction? This history of the private eyes and this account of how the detective industry and the culture industry played off of each other is a first. Walton show us, in clean clear outline, the figure of the classical private eye, and he shows us further how the memory of this iconic figure was sustained in fiction, radio, film, literary societies, product promotions, adolescent entertainments, and a subculture of detective enthusiasts.
3 Books To Know Detective Fiction
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Author : Edgar Allan Poe
language : en
Publisher: Tacet Books
Release Date : 2020-04-25
3 Books To Know Detective Fiction written by Edgar Allan Poe and has been published by Tacet Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-25 with Fiction categories.
Welcome to the 3 Books To Know series, our idea is to help readers learn about fascinating topics through three essential and relevant books. These carefully selected works can be fiction, non-fiction, historical documents or even biographies. We will always select for you three great works to instigate your mind, this time the topic is: Detective Fiction. When Edgar Allan Poe wrote his first Tales of Ratiocination. What he called stories for the mind. He had not imagined that he would be creating what we now know as Detective Fiction. For that reason, the#1 book selected is a collection of tales from Poe's great detective, Auguste Dupin. A parisian gentlemen with the sharpest mind. British author Arthur Conan Doyle was a fan of Poe. Inspired by Dupin tales, he created one of the most famous detectives of all fiction, Sherlock Holmes. So our book #2 could only be: The Hound of the Baskervilles. A harrowing tale of mystery in England's countryside. G. K. Chesterton created a different detective, a detective who was also a Catholic priest. The amateur detective, Father Brown, often known for his uncanny insight into human evil, is our choice #3. The book's name The Innocence of Father Brown. This is one of many books in the series 3 Books To Know. If you liked this book, look for the other titles in the series, we are sure you will like some of the topics.